Quotes About Selective

Just like I am a food snob, I am also a rabbinical snob.

Honestly, I'm a snobby person.

For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.

Not everything is meant for all to hear.

There becomes little doubt as to why power chooses to support power. Rwanda becomes invisible once again. We have nothing America wants.

Confirmation bias had tripped many a scientist, and no doubt many a cop as well. You find only what you're looking for, which makes it far too easy to overlook everything else.

I'm dead fussy about food: I don't eat junk.

I am not adding more films to my kitty just for the sake of money; I choose my script and do it.

What can I tell you? My heart has selective hearing.

They were common law wed, no preachers involved. You can guess how that set with the more churchy types. Which was probably most of them. Still is. They pick and choose what suits them. 'A man shall not lay with another man,' they're good about latching on to parts like that. But 'Judge not, lest ye be judged,' that goes in one ear and out the other.

Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.

I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

I'm not going to respond to every single thing that Donald Trump has to say or that Hillary Clinton says.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

I think people hear the question they want to hear.

Britain and America are two examples where social media will only show you what you like.

I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.

Most national holidays in most countries rest on selective memories of the past.

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

It's not like I have anything against it, I just chose the kind of films that appeal to me, and mindless entertainers don't often appeal to me.

Digital minimalists see new technologies as tools to be used to support things they deeply value—not as sources of value themselves. They don't accept the idea that offering some small benefit is justification for allowing an attention-gobbling service into their lives, and are instead interested in applying new technology in highly selective and intentional ways that yield big wins. Just as important: they're comfortable missing out on everything else.