Quotes About Selection

Our daily lives have a kaleidoscopic quality, a feeling of walking down a breakfast buffet and spooning out things onto your plate. And there's a lot to eat at this brunch of experience. Too many pineapple rings, too many sausages, too much syrup.

Each night ought to have its menu.

Forced to vote for a Davis, I'll take Jefferson and give you Bette.

There had been studies years ago that showed that when you presented consumers with multifarious choices—like, say, fifteen different types and brands of jelly—they had a harder time deciding, took longer to make up their minds, and were less satisfied with their ultimate selection than those who'd chosen from a narrower band of options. Elayah feared buying the wrong jelly. Only the jelly was her life.

The more options there are, the easier it is to regret anything at all that is disappointing about the option that you chose.

Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.

On the other hand, the fact that some choice is good doesn't necessarily mean that more choice is better.

The existence of multiple alternatives makes it easy for us to imagine alternatives that don't exist—alternatives that combine the attractive features of the ones that do exist. And to the extent that we engage our imaginations in this way, we will be even less satisfied with the alternative we end up choosing. So, once again, a greater variety of choices actually makes us feel worse.

Buying jeans is a trivial matter, but it suggests a much larger theme we will pursue throughout this book, which is this: When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable.

Pay attention to what you're giving up in the next-best alternative, but don't waste energy feeling bad about having passed up an option further down the list that you wouldn't have gotten to anyway.

I think in some reality shows people are chosen because they are laughably bad, so that the nation and the panel and everybody else can laugh at them.

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

Actors make choices for different reasons.

I received a call for getting selected in 'Cartel' on December 4, my birthday. I was on cloud nine and absolutely overjoyed hearing the news.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

My favorite receiver of all time? You can't pick a favorite receiver.

Casting directors don't necessarily want a more recognizable commercial face. Sometimes, they want a lesser known person.

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits.

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

I'm the type, when I used to go to the record store I used to buy two or three copies of certain records so I've got a pretty large selection of a lot of 12 inches.

If people come to a record store, and they can't find your album, they buy something else.

Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.

If somebody feels that a certain recreation fits into their film or a particular song fits into the film, I think that is the reason those songs are picked.