Quotes About Selection

The DNA-encoded catalytic machinery of the cell can rapidly learn to promote new chemical reactions when we provide new reagents and the appropriate incentive in the form of artificial selection.

The reason I choose the stories I choose - and it's why it takes me so long to find ideas - is that I'm looking for that very thing. I want an idea that begins, I want a middle that is compelling and will bring readers along, and I definitely want an ending.

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it.

I am a great believer that you should record more than you need and then use the absolute best.

At the end of the day, Coach Belichick does a great job of bringing in people he knows that will fit well.

If Cleveland takes me No. 1, it would be a great opportunity, first of all, and that goes for anyone taking me in any position.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

I felt like I was one of the better point guards in the draft, maybe the best. But falling out of the first round and being selected in the second round, the number really doesn't matter where you get drafted - it's about the fit.

Don't try to guess what a casting director wants.

The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.

If you get the right cast, half your work is done.

There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

Volí si stezku chodec, nebo stezka chodce?

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path choose the walker?

Chosen. Have you ever thought about that in reference to God choosing you? He chose you and me to be His children, His friends, His servants. He chose us because He loves us. Only love could choose people like us, don't you think? And that love is greater than any in this world.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do." —John Carmack