Quotes About Selection

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.

Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me.

Foremost is the casting; you need convincing faces. Most of our films suffer from casting.

I've never linked team selection to offering prayers, and reports suggesting otherwise are all wrong.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times before you are through.

Naga Chaitanya selects only those movies which suit him, just like his father.

As a parent, you're struggling to find stuff that you think is suitable for the kids, but also stuff that you'd like to watch with them.

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.

Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that you find one that fits you and that you're suited for, and then they see that you're fit for it.

It was immaterial to me that Elvis didn't write his own songs. Those were very different days, and he selected whatever suited him best from material supplied by publishing houses and teams of writers - all of whom were extremely conscious of his style of delivery.

Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.

Once I know an actor suits a character, it seals the deal.

At Getty, I would have 20 different options for the same kind of event rather than focusing on the one image that will summarize the story.

Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you're lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that's just a matter of luck. You can't attribute that to anything else.

I was pretty darn lucky to be selected by the Steelers. A round earlier or later in the draft and I might have been with a team that didn't make it to the Super Bowl.

For we select neither our parents, our race nor our nation; these occur to us out of the love, the hate, the circumstances, the fate, of others.

If It's Optic White, It's the Right White

We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.

What a signal convenience is fame. Do we read all authors to grope our way to the best? No, but the world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best.

I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms. If he can draw everything, why draw anything?

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species