Top 100 Quotes About Being Selective
#1. Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
Tim Ferriss
#2. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive.
Timothy Ferriss
#4. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.
Marianne Williamson
#5. Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.
Moutasem Algharati
#6. If you need to be selective about the work at a company, maybe you need to be more selective about the company you work for!
Bruce Outridge
#7. I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.
Derek Bok
#8. 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
#9. Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems and revitalize our economy we need to be more selective about our involvement in foreign crises large and small.
William Hartung
#10. Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
Garrison Keillor
#11. If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#13. I have learned that I must be selective when, where, and with whom I dream out loud.
Steve Lawson
#14. New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.
Jim Walsh
#15. Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves
Dathan Auerbach
#16. I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
Richard Paul Evans
#17. The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.
Shannon L. Alder
#18. I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners.
Lauren Conrad
#19. To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.
Claude Simon
#20. Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action.
James Luceno
#21. I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.
Sasha Grey
#22. When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
Gabriel Lippmann
#23. We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
Irving Babbitt
#24. I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
Erica Jong
#25. But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.
Rachel Cohn
#26. Had she insight, could she have pierced the barriers of her highly selective, insular world, she may have discovered that all her life she had been with a visual defect which had gone unnoticed and neglected by herself and by those closest to her: she was born color blind.
Harper Lee
#27. I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.
Richard Gere
#28. My contention is that, if our theology really derives from the biblical text, we must reconsider our selective supernaturalism and recover a biblical theology of the unseen world
Michael S. Heiser
#29. A mind that is very selective to forms ... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#30. Tell me dear, what do you know about prescribing atypical antipsychotics to enchance the effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors?
Sherrie Cronin
#31. Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.
Brian Tracy
#32. Don't look for a soul mate.
Make one
out of the complex fabric of the human being already with you.
Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.
Vera Nazarian
#33. If you are committed, you can select your thoughts and thereby shape your life here on earth into something spectacular. The alternative is to give up this freedom and live a life of mediocrity dominated by uncertainty and suspense.
Tommy Newberry
#34. In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.
William Sloane Coffin
#35. I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.
Alber Elbaz
#36. Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti?
See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy;
My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.
Pharoahe Monch
#37. I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.
Jason Lee
#38. We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best.
Brendan Iribe
#39. I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.
Desmond Tutu
#40. 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
#41. Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.
P. J. O'Rourke
#42. We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.
Lysa TerKeurst
#43. She wonders if memory is little more than this: a series of erasure and perfected selections.
Cristina Garcia
#44. The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.
Simon Sinek
#45. I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.
Alison Bechdel
Leah Price
#46. The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.
Michael Hastings
#47. If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
John Dyer Baizley
#48. I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.
Sharon Stone
#49. 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.
Frank Luntz
#50. Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.
Ronny Cox
#51. Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.
Jim Backus
#52. I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.
Nicole Williams
#53. Being a good person doesn't mean you fit the life of every person you meet.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.
Andreas Feininger
#55. He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.
Warren Farrell
#56. Sometimes, to destroy evil, it takes something equally dark; a selective malevolence that will do what others will not, or cannot do.
Robert G. Moons
#57. Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
Malcolm Forbes
#58. Porter is my eldest child, and I tended to be fiercely protective when he was criticized. He actually was not a big complainer about school. Simply selective in what he chose to do and say.
Susan Shreve
#59. It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
Bill Watterson
#60. With increased self-awareness comes focus... We become selective. We refrain from jumping to grab every opportunity that comes on our way...
Assegid Habtewold
#61. You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.
Roy Romer
#62. By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.
Manning Marable
#63. The artist ... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.
James Joyce
#64. People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.
Kevin Systrom
#65. Selective memory is one of the chief sins of the old, and I don't have time for it.
Stephen King
#66. How often
today might Christians think they stand for "true" Christianity when what they stand for is a secular tradition-what cultural critic Raymond Williams would call a "selective tradition" (chapter five)-that has little to do with the kingdom of God?
Crystal L. Downing
#67. China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of 'missing girls' as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns.
Chris Smith
#68. Accept little bribes,
and you have little integrity.
Reject some bribes,
and you have selective integrity.
Reject every bribe,
and you have great integrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#69. critical pedagogy illuminates how classroom learning embodies selective values, is entangled with relations of power, entails judgments about what knowledge counts, legitimates specific social relations, defines agency in particular ways, and always presupposes a particular notion of the future.
Henry A. Giroux
#70. The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.
Jacob Bronowski
#71. The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.
Philip K. Dick
#72. When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.
Shannon L. Alder
#73. I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#74. I practise selective deafness to hurtful remarks.
Scott Lynch
#75. Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political institutions of the country.
Daniel Lapin
#76. Memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
Fay Weldon
#77. Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there is no room for interpretation; you either take all of it or none. There is no selective belief
Stephen Colbert
#78. A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. You have to have good training partners and not people who crank on things. There's a difference between cranking on it and catching it, holding it and making the guy work out. You have to be selective with your training partners for sure.
Jon Fitch
#80. I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals.
David Roberts
#81. Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.
Donald Miller
#82. Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
Richard Harris
#83. As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a pair of eyes and ears - an entity without a body, without a face, and without a mouth. I felt as though I was barely a physical being.
Carl Sutton
#84. I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King."
Regina King
#85. People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn't keep.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.
Randolph M. Nesse
#87. You're selective when it comes to sex, but once you're with someone, the standards you would normally hold yourself to go out the window ...
Nicholas Sparks
#88. Yeah, I'm a giver. I've learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.
Brittany Murphy
#89. You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech.
George Brandis
#90. In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.
Sue Monk Kidd
#91. As a survival instinct, people have selective sight. Sometimes we do not perceive what we should because it will break us inside. We can't break. We must stand strong for the world is a cruel place and the only want to defeat its wickedness is to pretend that it does not harm us.
Annie Ortiz
#92. 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
Wes Fesler
#93. Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.
Diane Ackerman
#95. 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
#97. It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective.
Mandy Hale
#98. 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
#99. Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Wole Soyinka
#100. Seth rolled his eyes. "Because you're such a ladies man."
"I can be. I just have standards, is all. I'm very selective about who I choose to spend time with, whereas you'll fuck anything that moves. And several things that don't.
Elle Parker
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