BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE. — Michael Bierut
In many instances, mate choice is a compensatory process. In other words, both men and women choose prospective mates by combining their scores on several key attributes. — Gad Saad
You're standing in a room with a thousand doors, your job is to choose one and ignore the 999 other doors, and walk through that. — Tom Bilyeu
Carefully choose what to care about. — Mark Manson
Basically with everything, I choose my criteria based on what can be easy. — Akira Toriyama
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest. — Tim Ferriss
When eating choose the place, when playing choose your friends. — Vietnamese Proverbs
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. — Neil Peart
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. — Jean Nidetch
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn
Be very selective about the people you surround yourself with. — MrBeast
We're very careful to select what domains we'll build to serve. — Jensen Huang
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. — C.J. Langenhoven
If the most select benefactors do not assist poor wretches the latter must fall into despair. — Antonio Vivaldi
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Far more money can be made by good stock selection, than by good market timing. — Thomas Phelps
Whoever turns out to be best suited for the job. — Bernard Arnault
I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement. — Timbaland
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. — Charles Darwin
Selection Image Quotes
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
The Selection Quotes
I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies. — Kevin Gates
Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down. — Joseph McCarthy
Be selective in your battles, don't make every problem a war.
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines. — Axl Rose
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. — Franz Boas
Be selective in your battles, dont make every problem a war.
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism. — Roger Sherman
Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain. — Timothy Leary
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character. — Noah Webster
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good Selection Quotes
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. — Zhuge Liang
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate. — Adam Rickitt
When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them. — Confucius
The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing. — Jeffrey R. Immelt
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. — Louisa May Alcott
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. — Philip Danforth Armour
Credibility is a must. Think of all those bloggers that kill us with photos outside the shows - there will be a selection there, too. Not because some are less good, but those that do not impose a style will have fewer requests. — Franca Sozzani
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. — Charles Darwin
The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad. — Nelson Mandela
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. — David Rockefeller
Natural Selection Quotes
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature. — Clyde Tombaugh
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. — Richard Dawkins
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. — Herbert Spencer
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin
Natural selection is basically the inevitable outcome of two phenomena that still exist: heritable variation and differential reproductive success. — Daniel Lieberman
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands. — Francis Galton
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language. — Mark Pagel
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. — Charles Darwin
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation — Charles Darwin
How To Select Quotes
We didn’t evolve to be healthy, but instead we were selected to have as many offspring as possible under diverse, challenging conditions. As a consequence, we never evolved to make rational choices about what to eat or how to exercise in conditions of abundance and comfort. — Daniel Lieberman
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. — Elizabeth Gilbert
And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns? — Mark Levin
Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing. — Jerry Spinelli
When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat. — John Gierach
I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call. — Russell Crowe
The problem isn't testosterone and aggression; it's how often we reward aggression. And we do: We give medals to masters of the "right" kinds of aggression. We preferentially mate with them. We select them as our leaders. — Robert M. Sapolsky
The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it. You have to know how to apply light and know what it does on film. — Gordon Willis
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche. — Henry Ward Beecher
Selective Breeding Quotes
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers
and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt
of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of
sheep against the practice of eating mutton. — Bertrand Russell
We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding. — Wayne Pacelle
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding. — Margaret Sanger
The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man. — George Bernard Shaw
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals. — Jonathan Haidt
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship. — Tahir Shah
Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind." — Joseph Murphy
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think. — Rod Serling
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides. — Dennis Banks
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide. — Eric Clapton
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. — Edward Lawrie Tatum
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people. — Olof Palme
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon. — Dallas Willard
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. — Napoleon Hill
People want what they can’t have. People want what other people want. People want things only a select few have access to. — Alex Hormozi
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been. — Fidel Castro
The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. — Claude Shannon
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. — Gustav Mahler
My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs. — Erika Slezak
The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred. — Federico Tesio
Picking the right customer to sell to is one of the highest leverage things you can do to make more money. — Alex Hormozi
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. — John C. Bogle
The problem in Europe is that we have a selective distribution system that allows the products to be sold in shops that follow a level of quality. And that’s very expensive to build… — Bernard Arnault
Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal. — Max Planck
Being selective about how you spend your time and who you spend your time with is a sign of self-respect. — Steven Bartlett
Choosing a romantic partner isn’t just about the romance—you’re also choosing a confidant, counselor, career advisor, therapist, investor, teacher, travel buddy, roommate, best friend, and business partner. Choose wisely. — Mark Manson
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