Quotes About Selection

Stuffing instead of potatoes?

I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

We pick players on their profiles. Over the years, I've learned that, if you have one cog that's not quite right in the system, that flow of how you want to play can't work.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

I sample a little bit of everything - a bit of 'House,' a little bit of 'Prison Break.' I love 'Project Runway;' it's my favorite show!

I do pick my projects very meticulously. I want my projects to be meaningful.

I want to find the right projects. I'm not going to take just anything.

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear.

When good things come in, my agent calls or sends me the script. But I allow them to sort through the offers so that I am not just sitting and reading everything because honestly, sometimes the scripts that appeal to me are projects that are not good projects, but I just really like the script or the characters.

I try to pick interesting projects, the kind of projects that I would want to watch.

I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.

Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

Normally I am clear beforehand about which single proposal in a binary choice I am going to vote for.

I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

In many instances, mate choice is a compensatory process. In other words, both men and women choose prospective mates by combining their scores on several key attributes.

Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved.