Quotes About Selection

Great jobs, world-class jobs, jobs people kill for—those jobs don't get filled by people e-mailing in résumés. Google

Choose the people who want what you're offering. Choose the people most open to hearing your message. Choose the people who will tell the right other people …

Why do people choose one restaurant over another? One college? Why drive this car and not that one? Why did that poker champion make a bad bet? Why rent a house instead of buying one? What club do you belong to? If you look closely at decisions that don't initially make sense, you'll likely see status roles at work. The decision didn't make sense to you, but it made perfect sense to the person who made it. We spend a lot of time paying attention to status.

I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me. —Rosie

In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it.

Have I chosen friends because they smell like absence?

I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

And they choose our mates. (Ravyn) So what do they do? Jump here on earth, tap you on the shoulder, and say, 'Hey, bub, marry her'? (Susan)

What would you like? (Maggie) I don't care. I'll eat anything not Tylenol or chocolate. (Wren)

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead!

He also chooses his enemies.

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

I went to Harvard because I got in. This is not the best reason to pick a college,

The New York Times' pro-gun control results seem to stem from a heavy reliance on public health researchers. Furthermore, the Times only asks questions calling for more government regulations of gun ownership. But the Times' panel was even more supportive of gun control than was the average public health researcher in our survey, so it is hard to believe that there wasn't bias at work in the selection of the panel's membership.

The power of the negative media around the food industry drives my mind to enact a Woody Allen-ish skit whenever faced with a restaurant menu. For instance, beef translates to "mad cow disease," chicken morphs into "avian flu," fish reconstitutes to "mercury poisoning," and vegetarian option becomes "genetically modified crops." I am unsure what to pick, and moreover who I can trust when my selection is made.

People] will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives.

This island chooses people, Aunt Greta said. It chose Bo and me, and I think it's chosen you as well.

Much of leadership is knowing whom to select, whom to encourage, whom to restrain, and whom to replace.

This was different: the feeling of being chosen. Out of everybody in the world...this boy had picked him as the one he liked best of all.

Gladly would I possess the power of selecting my society. From that happy privilege I am debarred. But I seldom make one of a circle in which I do not find some novelty of character, and something either of excellence or absurdity from which I may draw improvement