Quotes About Selective

I usually just have a circle of people that I associate myself with. I'm not really cool with a lot of people. It might seem like I'm cool with them, but I'm really not.

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook what I felt like cooking. And you could eat it or not.

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

I think people take for granted the success of the original content at A&E Networks and in building brands. People have selective memory on how long that takes.

The offers are plenty. I'm just taking time and only working on those projects that excite me.

Knowing your purpose focuses your life. It concentrates your effort and energy on what's important. You become effective by being selective.

Infosys, for instance, is very focused on which types of clients it will serve and which it will not. The company focuses on high-growth industry segments and on the "reference" clients within them.

My relationship with sartorial news is only what I like.

But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

like a pernickety bandit.

No matter what you say or how many times you say, people always hear what they want to hear.

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

O mapa foi a primeira forma de desinformação, pois o que era um mapa senão uma maneira de enfatizar certas coisas e tornar outras invisíveis? Sempre éramos mandadas de volta ao mapa, para memorizar seus detalhes.

I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.

the past had been no better or worse than the present—the human brain glossed over horror and hardship and revived what it wanted to glorify.

It would be nice if you could have some control over it, deciding which memories would stay, which would be banished to the netherworld. Poof. Just like that.

For the memory is selective and it is easier to remember what one wants to remember, so if I have to chose between the splendour and the miseries, I will chose the moments of happiness in spite of the fact that there are few situations in which men and women are completely happy and completely free.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Everyone's past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.

I don't even watch many huge films. I don't go to the cinema every weekend. I watch selective cinema and want to make my kind of films.

We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.

I prefer selective memories. Some songs and some co-workers are all that I want to remember, as memories are not always so pleasant.

President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration's political agenda.