Selective Quotes

#1. I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.

Peter York

#2. It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Democracies die behind closed doors ... When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

Damon Keith

#4. It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

Eric Liu

#6. I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.

Anna Quindlen

#7. Thank God for tunnel vision. Thank God for selective perception. Because without it, we might as well all be in a Lovecraft story.

Stephen King

#8. Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

Shelley Long

#9. 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

#10. When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

Ulrich Beck

#11. It's nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have.

Will Ferrell

#12. Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat.

Elizabeth Peters

#13. You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna? They must have known on some level that that is where they would flourish. It's what biologists call "selective migration."

Eric Weiner

#14. Moral codes were not designed to be selective, nor indeed were they designed to be questioned. You could not say that you would observe this prohibition but not that. I shall not commit theft
certainly not
but adultery is another matter: wrong for other people, but not for me.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

C.S. Lewis

#16. 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

#17. I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective.

Angelina Jolie

#18. I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

Virgilia Peterson

#19. 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

#20. It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.

Jarvis Cocker

#21. Selective deafness was one of the many time-honored survival mechanisms of motherhood.

Nikki Sex

#22. Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!".

Woody Allen

#23. I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

Norman Jewison

#24. The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

Charles Hugh Smith

#25. There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population but that are of great advantage to the population as a whole.

Ernst Mayr

#26. I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

Terry Gross

#27. There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.

Romola Garai

#28. Being selective is self-protective.

David Posen

#29. I am kind of being a little selective in what I do, so it takes a little bit longer, but it's worth it in the end.

Chrissie Fit

#30. I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

Herb Ritts

#31. I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

Michael Pitt

#32. For a moment, I believed you. He ordered me, dryly, recovering his usual poise again.
He does not only have a selective hearing, but a selective understanding as well. I confessed. If he believes me or not, is his problem. Forewarned is not forearmed.

Tionne Rogers

#33. Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

Emily Yoffe

#34. Sex is merely a genetic joint venture. the process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective.

Matt Ridley

#35. That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#36. Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective

Wole Soyinka

#37. I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.

Will Ferrell

#38. Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.

Ben Shapiro

#39. Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch in stitches.

Angelica Hopes

#40. In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.

Frederick Lenz

#41. Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either.

Judith Guest

#42. To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make. Ironically,

Greg McKeown

#43. I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

Edward Abbey

#44. Glimpses through the clouds of numerous and enormous Second Free Zone residential arks and barges lumbering through their selective tracks like a slow-motion game of hide and seek played by listless, blunt whales.

Kieran Shea

#45. Because your child is your first priority, your're more selective, so in order to let someone into that world, they have to be really special. You cut out the bull - that you might fall for if you didn't have responsibilities.

Helena Christensen

#46. I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.

Erin O'Connor

#47. There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.

Zoe Sugg

#48. We only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed. So we have to be really selective about where we dig.

Sarah Parcak

#49. 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

#50. The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution We must eliminate the Yahoo, or his vote will wreck the commonwealth.

George Bernard Shaw

#51. Eve is gorgeous, and she gets plenty of attention from guys, but her taste is selective. She only dates complete jerks.

J.B. Salsbury

#52. The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Blake Morrison

#53. Life is about choices. Choose your influences carefully. Be selective of everything you see, hear, read, and say. The very things we constantly surround ourselves with... we become. Reevaluate your influences your very life depends on it." ~Jason Versey

Jason Versey

#54. For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

Lizzy Caplan

#55. Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

Richard Koch

#56. Pearls of wisdom by Ms. Hove: When choosing the right person to date, there are many virtues to consider: honesty, respect, and compassion. Be selective! Slow down!! Get to know the person before permitting any intimacy to occur.

Leslie Portu

#57. Google: the selective use of polygraphs

David Howard

#58. 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

#59. Sometimes I can't tell that someone is a selective asshole because they're so nice to me and the people around me that I don't realize it until someone else says, "You know, that person is an asshole." So I'll be fooled by selective assholes sometimes ... lately.

Emma Stone

#60. Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#61. I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

Esther Rolle

#62. A bitch is more selective about her availability. She's available
sometimes; other times she's not. But she's nice.

Sherry Argov

#63. Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

William Safire

#64. Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.

Sam Keen

#65. If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output.

Zig Ziglar

#66. My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.

Burton Silverman

#67. from Hunter's Moon: Memories are deceptive and imperfect; selective and seductive. They have a way of sneaking up on you. A scent, a color, an idle phrase can trigger them and you're powerless to escape.

Ken Gilland

#68. Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.

James A.C. Brown

#69. His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught.

Paul Theroux

#70. I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

Julie Walters

#71. I used to think God wouldn't talk to me, but now I know I'm just selective with what I choose to hear.

Bob Goff

#72. Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Ayn Rand

#73. A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.

Radhanath Swami

#74. As I get older, I am becoming more selective of who I consider a friend. I find that I would rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.

Steve Maraboli

#75. I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

Kim Smith

#76. There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.

Sue Monk Kidd

#77. I'm not a big shopper. I'm very very picky about what it is that I buy, I prefer to buy vintage and then I prefer to be very selective.

Jaime King

#78. Love your neighbor, even the ones who do not show you the same courtesy. You can't expect to receive love if you're selective and not really willing to give it. What you put into the world, you will indeed get back, even if it's not from the person you're expecting it to be.

Alexandra Elle

#79. What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.

Phyllis Schlafly

#80. Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

Daniel Dennett

#81. Selective hearing ... typical male. Maybe he was human after all ...

Cameo Renae

#82. I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

Kirk Cameron

#83. I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

Michael Pena

#84. Did you just call me a mutt?":
"Yes! Fur, paws..selective deafness. Just like my aunt's lab. He always ignores me unless I have food for him. So ... mutt.

Mina Carter

#85. 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

#86. Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

Emily Oster

#87. Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

Barry Ritholtz

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

Nigel Hamilton

#89. That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

Yann Martel

#90. The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways
through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Kenneth Kaunda

#91. I wanna be selective ... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

Timbaland

#92. Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.

William Zinsser

#93. The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

Orson Scott Card

#94. I don't taste and tell. Don't worry though. I'm very selective

Kallypso Masters

#95. Our habits and our institutions, from language to cities, are constantly changing, and the mechanism of change turns out to be surprisingly Darwinian: it is gradual, undirected, mutational, inexorable, combinatorial, selective and in some vague sense progressive.

Matt Ridley

#96. Because his memory is so selective, he has no scars from prior experience, said Vinny.

Michael Lewis

#97. Selective literalism' is another attempt in a very long line of techniques designed and intended to shape God into our own image".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#98. Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

#99. If reading isn't about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely selective kind of sharing.

Daniel Pennac

#100. Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

E.L. Doctorow