Quotes About Selection

MULTI SUNT VOCATI, PAUCI VERO ELECTI 'Many are called, but few are chosen

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. Joseph Anton

If you start reading a book and you don't like it you always have the option of shutting it. At this point it loses its capacity to offend you.

It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones.

You don't choose to choose what you choose in life!

But while having some choice is generally good, it seems that having too many options tends to undermine our feelings of satisfaction, no matter which option we choose.

I don't need to be tame, because dragons choose their partner by themselves.

Your own beliefs are selecting your genes, and if you don't have the right genes to handle the stress that your in, your belief will rewrite your genes in an effort to do so.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

All things are divine. And yet, we pick and choose among them what's appropriate.

crows were more intelligent than most men, and more loyal, and that you could not choose them, they must choose you, they must come to you and once they did they would never leave you, at least not of their own accord.

Sometimes there is no good choice. Just the choice that has to be made.

La memoria es ficción. Seleccionamos lo más brillante y lo más oscuro, ignorando lo que nos avergüenza, y así bordamos el ancho tapiz de nuestra vida

And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.

Enemies are like furniture, aren't they? Better chosen for oneself than inherited.

Pick your enemies more carefully than your friends," Nothing was muttering at the flames. "They will be with you longer.

The only choice was between falling on rocks or falling on water, and that was a choice that more or less made itself.

You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.

if your expectation is that your future will be like your past, then you are not only thinking in the past, but also selecting a known future based only on your past and emotionally embracing that event until your body (as the unconscious mind) believes that it's living in that future in the present moment.

The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.

Pujols was a 13th-round selection by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1999 draft. Thirteenth-round draft picks rarely make it—I do not say this lightly. Since the first year of the draft, only 13 percent of all 13th-round picks have made it to the big leagues at all, and less than 8 percent have posted even one win above replacement.