Quotes About Selective

Golf Club description:] Once it had enough members to sustain itself, it began the obligatory practice of excluding others.

Boutique, as in small, gifted, and expert in one specialized area. Boutique, as in pretty cool and chic, right down to the Frenchness of the word itself. Boutique, as in thoroughly happy to be small, selective, and prosperous.

Es tan ciego porque sólo ve lo que quiere ver.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

I dont listen very well, simply because I hear what U wanna hear and if you aint talking about nothing your being ignored.

Be selective in your battles. Sometimes PEACE is better than being right.

Pam?enje je neobi?an umjetnik, mijenja boje života, briše ono što je nezanimljivo i ?uva samo ono najljepše i najuzbudljivije.

Lastly, the story that the Tapestry tells is inevitably selective and in places demonstrably inaccurate; some events are left out and others are deliberately distorted. No other source, for example, suggests that Harold swore his famous oath to William at Bayeux, or that it was Odo who heroically turned the tide for the Normans during the Battle of Hastings. The Tapestry, it bears repeating, is really an embroidery.

Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

confirmation bias means we look for and find evidence to support our beliefs. We cherry-pick information that confirms what we already know, while ignoring (consciously and unconsciously) information that challenges our existing beliefs.

I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

the nation's canonization of Martin King . . . we have sought to remember him by forgetting him.

Books are companions; choose your companions wisely.

Don't absorb criticism from people you wouldn't go to for advice.

sex is merely a genetic joint venture. the process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective.

Arguments for war based on the principle of 'setting the world an example' are always dangerous. They can be used to justify quite disproportionate responses, as occurred in South-east Asia in the 1960s and 1970s. They tend to be selective: why for instance did Britain not use force in 1965 to uphold the concept of majority self-determination in Rhodesia?

When a cat chooses to be friendly, it's a big deal, because a cat is picky.

And if Congress can't delegate the legislative power that the Constitution gives it, it certainly cannot delegate power that the Constitution doesn't give it, such as the power to hand out selective exemptions from its laws, as agencies do when they grant waivers.35

Humans insist on defining reality by their standards. They are poorly equipped to do so, since they are selectively deaf and blind in one eye. They are beings with an insatiable need to categorize the universe that surrounds them, but demand that the facts reveal a universe suited for human cultivation and exploitation. Things must remain status quo.

People can choose to treasure those parts of their heritage that they see as favorable and wish to keep, jettisoning what unpleasant truths they would prefer to forget.