Quotes About Selection

We have a great array of choices before us, and it is our glory to choose between them. But there is one choice we do not have, and that is the choice to be the author of the story.

Of all the places you could go, I just thought youd choose somewhere that has somebody that you know.

Thus, in effect, all we are really saying is that "X happened because that's what people wanted; and we know that X is what they wanted because X is what happened.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

I came into this life, looked all around. I saw just what I liked and took what I found.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

cross that person off your invitation list.

This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.

Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.

Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.

The essence of strategy," Porter often says, "is choosing what not to do.

He would have liked to weigh his choices, but for that you need more than one.

War, compared the selection process he went through in 1946 to a slave market: Everyone was ordered to the courtyard and told to strip. When your name was called you appeared before a medical team for a health inspection. The exam consisted of

When it comes to being selected for a thankless job, the man who leaves the room just before the vote is the fool who gets the job.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, extraverts and introverts have not differed in their average reproductive output (although they might have differed at any one time or place in our evolutionary history). We can conclude that, while there are personality differences, there is no one "personality" that is inherently more adaptively successful than any other.

Well, they said, these are the pies we have . It was a proverb.

Sometimes the world is better off if one always defaults to option number two.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.

Your participation is now optional.

Whenever we choose an alternative (whether it is taking a new job or moving to Des Moines for month), we are automatically rejecting every other possible choice. All those rejected alternatives are paths to possible futures where things could be better or worse than the path we chose. There is potential opportunity cost in any choice we forgo.