Quotes About Selection

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

Can be selectively bred into kale, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, and more. All are descended from the same ancestor, making this plant very versatile for selective breeding!

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not.

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

Forced to chose between one irascible tyrant and another, Laura had chosen the one which was greater, and also further away.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.

I visited Eduardo Miura's ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem.

Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.

My dad got me my first pair of boots. It was a big occasion for us to go to the shopping centre. It was an exciting time to make sure you got the right ones.

She never sounded pleased about beef noodle casserole or chicken à la king, either, but she did seem to perk up at pork chops and ham. I guess she was a pig girl.

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

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

I can see all the stories of my life. I can pick and choose from among them.

Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex and it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let it rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.

There are probably a dozen perfect happy endings you could write. And a thousand bittersweet ones, and at least a million that are gloriously tragic. Alas, you only get to pick one.

With limited time or opportunity to experiment, we intentionally narrow our choices to those at the top.

the magic was in the guts it took to carefully curate the customers. Choose the people you serve, choose your future.