Quotes About Selection

Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-size rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination.

All right," Otto Heilmann said a few minutes later, "we must now choose our leaders.

And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

Se necesita cierta dósis de selección y de discreción al exhibir un efecto realista.

Religion interferes with this play of selection and adaptation by forcing on everyone indiscriminately its own path to the attainment of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in reducing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world by means of delusion; and this presupposes the intimidation of the intelligence.

At first this gives the impression that the psychical intensity7 of the particular ideas was not taken into consideration at all in their selection for the dream, but only the varying nature and degree of their determination.

The downside of shuffle soon revealed itself, though. I became fascinated with the mechanism itself, and soon was always wanting to know what was coming up next. It was irresistible to click onto the next random selection. Even if it was something great, there was the possibility something greater still would flash up next.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection.

This is stupid. How am I supposed to predict which T-shirts I'm going to want to wear? The whole point about T-shirts is you choose them in the morning according to your mood, like crystals, or aromatherapy oils. Imagine if I woke up in the mood for my "Elvis Is Groovy" T-shirt and I didn't have it with me?

I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features

God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live within the boundaries these times

Reason also is choice.

wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves.

To define, is to select from among all the properties of a thing, those which shall be understood to be designated and declared by its name; and the properties must be well known to us before we can be competent to determine which of them are fittest to be chosen for this purpose.

When we look at nature, we are only looking at the survivors. STEPHEN BUDIANSKY, If a Lion Could Talk

Determining the selected item The preceding

Miss Hunter leaned toward Stormy. "Well, as you also may know, ever since the year when Dylan Jackson was nominated for and won prom queen without his knowledge, it's been school policy to inform all nominees that they have been selected as a candidate for prom queen.

The writer chooses details in accord with the narrative voice most fit to tell the story, sensing how much is needed and what might need to be cut.

There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

the elect of God.

But a first choice is not always the right choice.