Quotes About Selective

We are not just passive receptors sponging up a flow of images and information. Perception involves organizing stimuli and data into comprehensible units. In a word, perception is itself an act of selective editing.

I don't know a single actor who is not picky.

In this journey there is so much to my life that I just do privately... I don't really make it a huge priority to tell every single thing that I do every single day about my life.

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.

I love performing, and it allows me to be very discerning about what I choose next, thank god.

We are totally dysfunctional." "I prefer 'selectively deviant'. But we'll keep that to ourselves.

Good at believing what they wanted and ignoring any proof to the contrary

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

I am a very choosy guy, sometimes it gets very irritating for composers. If I don't feel it, then I am not able to perform.

We fixate on what is relevant to us, and we see what we want to see.

Therefore, we need to be selective about the feedback we let into our lives. For me, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.

we need to be selective about the feedback we let into our lives.

The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell that is dividing.

Good parts just don't fall off trees. I try to be very careful about what sort of projects I attack. There's an audience out there that expects high standards from me.

I don't avoid trends. You do definitely want to be on-trend, but I do like to pick and choose the things that I'm seeing. And not every trend will work on every client of mine.

How many artists to pick as my obsessions? The four I listen to all the time are Phoebe Bridgers, A Tribe Called Quest - I'm being very selective, here - and then probably the Cure, still; and then The Internet - I love The Internet.

Interestingly, the word, intelligence, comes from the Latin phrase inter legere—it means, simply, "to choose.

A general militia composed of all citizens capable of bearing arms was seen as superior to a select militia consisting of a selective group, which bordered on a standing army, the bane of liberty.

El cerebro humano, una vez que ha adoptado una opinión, selecciona cuidadosamente toda la información que recibe para apoyar y estar de acuerdo con ella. Y aunque haya un mayor número de evidencia y ejemplos que prueben lo contrario, o bien la descuida y la desprecia, o bien la deja de lado y la rechaza para que con esta predeterminación perniciosa, la autoridad de sus primeras conclusiones puedan permanecer invioladas". (Francis Bacon, 1602).

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while.

The directors are selective in their choice of actors and sometimes, those choices smack of arrogance.

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.