Top 100 Quotes On Select
#1. I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.
Justin Townes Earle
#2. Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.
Carl Henegan
#3. I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#4. The list of verbs associated with the six levels in Table 4-1 helps you to select a verb that fits the level of learning.
Elaine Biech
#5. Employees are shielded from being healthcare consumers because they rely on their
employers' priorities and judgment instead of their own to select insurance.
Archelle Georgiou
#6. That is to say, our physical ability to understand time has been honed by evolutionary pressures to select for traits useful for survival, in all aspects, and time perception is no exception or special case or even magical or mysterious case.
Charles Yu
#7. I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.
Roger Clemens
#8. The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.
Evelyn Lauder
#9. While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#10. 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
#11. If elitist groups like Bohemian Club, the CFR and the Bilderberg Group select and groom candidates to become Presidents of the US then isn't it safe to assume they also dictate certain policies once their alumni are in the White House?
Lance Morcan
#12. You don't win or lose the games bcoz of 11 you select.
You win or lose with what those 11 do on the field.
Rahul Dravid
#13. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.
Kevin McCarthy
#14. The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.
Rogers Hornsby
#15. Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or more generations they should have a small fortune of 'ancient' famous items.
Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea
#16. I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.
Isabel Burton
#17. If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].
John Dingell
#18. It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
William Ernest Henley
#19. The president has the right to select who he wants for the Supreme Court. He doesn't have to get it cleared from Congress, Senate or anybody ... No president before this has come under this kind of scrutiny ... before the committee hearings even begin.
Montel Williams
#20. I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
#21. Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.
Thomas Leonard
#22. We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#23. We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.
Clarence Benjamin Jones
#24. A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#25. If we're not ready for leadership or don't want to be the leader, then we need to focus on our followership skills that relate to a bad leader or select another leader that we think would do a better job than we would.
Kurt Madden
#26. The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.
Bruno Dumont
#27. The appointment of senators by the state legislatures ... is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.
James Madison
#28. The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.
Robert McKee
#29. From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and call consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it.
Robert M. Pirsig
#30. The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.
Joyce Lee Malcolm
#31. Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#32. A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.
Millard Drexler
#33. What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.
Marc Veasey
#34. Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
Charles Caleb Colton
#35. I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as a fairly thoughtful person. I don't go into projects impetuously, and I try to select important problems.
Eric Kandel
#36. Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.
Clarence Darrow
#37. I create a folder called 'Daily' on my browser bar and I saved all the websites that I visit in the morning inside this folder. Every morning, I will then right click this folder and select Open All Bookmarks.
K.C. Tan
#38. Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Allen Ginsberg
#39. Make a list of your prospects. Prioritize the contacts and select the leads with the highest potential to buy first.
Timi Nadela
#40. Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.
Erich Von Stroheim
#41. In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.
Richard V. Allen
#42. If you choose to not deal with an issue,
then you give up your right of control over the issue
and it will select the path of least resistance.
Susan Del Gatto
#43. I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.
Garrison Keillor
#44. When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.
Barack Obama
#45. In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.
Kisan Baburao Hazare
#46. The pursuit of holiness is thus no mere private hobby, nor merely a path for a select few, but a vital element in Christian mission strategy today. The world's greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.
J.I. Packer
#47. God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
James Dobson
#48. The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.
Bill Nye
#49. God does not have some limited supply of power, requiring that we carefully select a few choice things to pray about. God's power is infinite. God's grace and mercy are drawn deeply from the bottomless well of His heart.
Beth Moore
#50. Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
Dan Shechtman
#51. The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.
Amitabh Bachchan
#52. I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.
John Mackey
#53. I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.
Lawrence Lessig
#54. ...the leader must 1) avoid getting swamped in detail; 2) not be petty; 3) not be pompous; 4) know how to select people to fit the task; 5) trust others to do a job without the leader's meddling; 6) be capable of clear decisions; 7) inspire confidence.
J. Oswald Sanders
#55. A well-trained marathoner will select a stride length that is somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of her total height. This means that she has less of a vertical displacement requirement.
Jim Gourley
#56. Among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
Noam Chomsky
#57. I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
Albert Einstein
#58. The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
Boris Sidis
#59. 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
#60. He who cares to go to the trouble of demonstrating the uselessness of index numbers for monetary theory and the concrete tasks of monetary policy will be able to select a good proportion of his weapons from the writings of the very men who invented them.
Ludwig Von Mises
#61. It seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.
Orson Scott Card
#62. Holiness is not just for some select few spiritual giants; it is not just for pious people who sit around all day with nothing to do but "be holy." ... "Everyone who names the name of the Lord" is called to live a holy life!
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#63. The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Olof Palme
#64. My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor
#65. The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
Arthur Herzog
#66. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
Joan Didion
#67. It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
Plato
#68. Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.
Sathya Sai Baba
#69. Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.
Marie Kondo
#70. Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'm confident that I can do a good job in articulating why President Obama ought to be the candidate that Americans select for the next four years.
Julian Castro
#71. The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
Patricia Schroeder
#72. Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#73. People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
Oscar Wilde
#74. While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.
John Ridley
#75. I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.
Joseph Pulitzer
#76. When it comes to bending the truth to assist a story's plot versus staying completely true to the facts, we can assure you any dramatist will always select the former. Mark Twain's old saying "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" still reigns in Hollywood.
James Morcan
#77. Some come and leave fulfilling a single purpose; others, for a time or a season to teach us by their experiences; and last, a select few who participate with relationships that endure eternity.
Jaren L. Davis
#78. If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.
John Taylor
#79. Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .
Nicholas D. Kristof
#80. 208. "Learn to distinguish what should be done and what not; The clever soul will always select his opportunity." ~
Nagarjuna
#81. Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.
W. H. Auden
#82. Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
Hilary Mantel
#83. I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.
Anthony Kennedy
#84. Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband.
Tariq Ramadan
#85. I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.
Nimrat Kaur
#86. Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.
Isabel Allende
#87. Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.
Jeffrey Archer
#88. The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm ... Tapioca
Paul Reiser
#89. There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.
James T. Rapier
#90. God did not direct His call to Isaiah - Isaiah overheard God saying, " ... who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.
Oswald Chambers
#91. What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.
Tim LaHaye
#92. Every human thought, word, or deed is based on fear or love. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, reveals, shares, heals. You have free choice about which of these to select.
Neale Donald Walsch
#93. Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.
Nhat Hanh
#94. It is Satan's purpose to steal the seed of truth from your heart by sending distracting thoughts ... The difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is: though they both may have good and evil thoughts, Christ gives His followers strength to select the right rather than the wrong.
Billy Graham
#95. The critics often invent authors; they select two dissimilar works - the Tao Te Ching and the 1001 Nights, say - attribute them to the same writer and then determine most scrupulously the psychology of this interesting homme de lettres ...
Jorge Luis Borges
#96. The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided to make the picture. I had to find my way through that to choose, select, emphasise certain visual elements and sound.
Martin Scorsese
#98. Traditionally, art has been for the select few.
Bob Ross
#99. On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.
Mark Foley
#100. Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
Ken Robinson
