Quotes About Selective

I am very choosy about making event appearances and endorsing brands because, as actors, we have to be very responsible.

Of course, I am choosy because I want to do good cinema.

I am extremely choosy about the work I do.

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they do not see what they do not wish to see, what is useless to them, or disagreeable.

From a legal point of view—" He shook his head. "Forget the law. It isn't going to help. They'll cite it where it suits them, ignore it where it doesn't. They're clerics, Archeth. They spend their whole fucking lives selectively interpreting textual authority to advantage.

They only remembered the good times

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

We only listen to what we want to hear.

Een boek is voor hem [C. Buddingh'] zo iets als een rommelwinkel voor andere koopjesjagers. Je vindt hier en daar wat moois, een aardig vaasje, een raar plaatje, maar de winkelvoorraad als geheel interesseert je geen zier. Zo leest Kees boeken. Hij pikt er zinnetjes uit, zoals een kind snot uit z'n neus peutert en smakelijk opeet, zonder te weten hoe het is ontstaan, zonder zich in de functie van slijmvliezen en de ademhaling te verdiepen, zonder iets te begrijpen van de totale mens, hè.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe.

I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.

If a great opportunity arises, you can't say no. But you do have to pick and choose a little more.

People only see what they want to see

History is what people want to remember.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

There is a deep interrelatedness between your state of consciousness and external reality. When you are in the grip of a mind-set such as 'war,' your perceptions become extremely selective as well as distorted. In other words, you will see only what you want to see and then misinterpret it. You can imagine what kind of action comes out of such a delusional system.

Flaubert claimed that we each have a royal room in our hearts into which only very few are admitted.

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.

I'm very fussy. I'm very hard to please.

I am extremely choosy about the scripts that I accept. I choose movies from an audience point of view - keeping in mind what they would like to watch.