Quotes About Selection

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

I'm sick of Soup Of The Day, man. It's time we make a decision. I need to know what Soup From Now On is.

I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.

Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

El operario hábil selecciona con sumo cuidado el contenido de ese vano disponible que es su cabeza. Sólo de herramientas útiles se compondrá su arsenal, pero éstas serán abundantes y estarán en perfecto estado.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.

Love is the best Eugenics.

we had not chosen who that cardiologist would be.

Given a choice, people wriggle out, and those choices are not offered equally.

and when we decide by instinct

No one was thinking of any better options

Sometimes, of course, the difference between one option and another isn't especially significant.

We were taking turns making picks, and for the first few rounds, everything seemed normal.

The important thing to realize is the males in most species will breed with any female who stays still long enough. It's the females who are selective. What they desire has a huge effect. If all the female walruses got together one day to decide they wanted polka dots, within a few generations the males would have polka dots. The female's wish made physical on the male's body.

It was a salad bar of phobias

People of outstanding abilities and strength of character are born at more or less regular intervals, so it's only the matter of their selection that is uneven. Their presence or absence in a particular field of inquiry can perhaps be explained by the perspectives it opens up.

People of outstanding abilities and strength of character are born at more or less regular intervals, so it's only the matter of their selection that is uneven.

There are no answers, only choices.

It was a cold-blooded lottery that paid off often enough to be worthwhile adapting for.

Unfortunately, most of today's women resemble bowerbirds that force suitors to build elaborate nests of twigs, leaves, and discarded garbage before choosing a mate. Any male who doesn't meet her standards doesn't get to mate that year; one assumes he just stays in his bower, reads bower manuals, and watches bowerbird porn.

The discarded animals—the failures—had been the hippopotamus, the giraffe, the camel, the donkey, and the zebra, each one getting closer to the perfect dimensions, beauty, and balance of the horse.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.