Quotes About Selection

It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.

Which is this magical listening station, whereupon all musical worth is decided?

I want the white one

Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine.

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget. A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records.

You don't know the meaning of true love if you think it can be deliberately selected. You just love, that's all. A natural force, irresistible.

That's so often what it is with machinery: be somewhat in doubt and it carries the decision.

Unless your open position demands that your candidate will solve puzzles or riddles, do not use puzzles or riddles, instead of auditions.

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor

Every image embodies a way of seeing. Even a photograph. For photographs are not, as is often assumed, a mechanical record. Every time we look at a photograph, we are aware, however slightly, of the photographer selecting that sight from an infinity of other possible sights. This is true even in the most casual family snapshot. The photographer's way of seeing is reflected in his choice of subject.

It's the social counterpart of natural selection. Those groups within society that craved power at the expense of everything else—morality, self-respect, honest friendship—they achieved dominance long ago. The mass of the public no longer has any contact with government; all they know is that if they step out of line they'll be trodden on.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

But Jacob was divinely chosen and his brother, the first-born, was rejected.

he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside

by means of evolution by natural selection, which showed how living things can become well adapted to their environments over the course of time under a very wide range of circumstances, so long as the environment is not changing too quickly. Complexity could develop from simplicity without direct Divine intervention.

Art is the living and concrete proof that man is capable of restoring consciously, and thus on the plane of meaning, the union of sense, need, impulse and action characteristic of the live creature. The intervention of consciousness adds regulation, power of selection, and redisposition. Thus it varies the arts in ways without end. But its intervention also leads in time to the idea of art as a conscious idea—the greatest intellectual achievement in the history of humanity.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.

You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.

In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.