Quotes About Select

Life is all about decisions. Chose wisely.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

Life is full of tough choices between less-than-perfect alternatives.

But while choice is infinite, our lives have time spans. We can't live every life. We can't watch every film or read every book or visit every single place on this sweet earth. Rather than being blocked by it, we need to edit the choice in front of us. We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest. We don't need another world. Everything we need is here, if we give up thinking we need everything.

You always have a choice. Life is full of choices

While choice is infinite, our lives have time spans. We can't live every life. We can't watch every film or read every book or visit every single place on this sweet earth. Rather than being blocked by it, we need to edit the choice in front of us. We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest.

All that the forebrain does is to select the goal, trigger it into action by desire, and feed information to the automatic mechanism so that your hand continually corrects its course.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Let him go. Let one of them go. Knowing it and doing it, two separate accomplishments. Let one man go. The question had to be, which one?

With FRESH Prioritization, you can choose to move select older tasks back to near the top of the Opportunity Now list, if they are still important. But only if you decide they warrant it. In other words, older tasks need to earn their position near the top of your list.

I paused, deciding which story to pluck from my quiver and shoot in his direction" -Eve

But it was all the same choice, every time. The choice between the one death and all the little ones.

seizing the large and letting go of the small" (????),

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

Teachers of old went to these extremes in revering the transmission of Dharma through the right masters. This means nothing other than valuing the Dharma more than anything else. In this sense, the question to be settled first of all for anyone is to select the right teacher who has clearly inherited Dharma through authentic masters.

The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.

The future of social entrepreneurship is no longer about looking up to a select few who have some kind of rare gift for implementing innovative ideas.

We'd be immortal if we weren't forced to make choices.

Parce que choisir, c'est renoncer à tous les autres possibles.

Joubert (1801): «Solo debes elegir por esposa a la mujer que escogerías como amigo, si fuera hombre».

We don't really allocate unconscious attention in any meaningful way—it just gets allocated without us having to make any real decision about what is attended to. But, as we shall see, you can consciously select the environments that your unconscious attention can roam in. Although you can't consciously dictate how your dog runs around a field, you can choose which park you take it to. We are a lot like dogs in how we react to situational triggers.