Selectively Quotes

#1. My experiences with the older audience and, selectively, the people I hang out with or run into, they all want to see Arnold [Schwarzenegger] kick some ass.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#2. People enjoy being able to articulate their interests and define themselves by selectively compiling and resharing content created by others

Tom Standage

#3. The instinctual shortcut that we take when we have "too much information" is to engage with it selectively, picking out the parts we like and ignoring the remainder, making allies with those who have made the same choices and enemies of the rest.

Nate Silver

#4. All throughout our lives, we selectively draw on selected shavings of life events and reflect upon them through consciousness, creating an arranged catalogue of senses, faculties, and mental activities that compose our personal life story.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.

Keith Crown

#6. Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

Theodor Adorno

#7. The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

Austin Kleon

#8. For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

Pauline Kael

#9. The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#10. If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

Harry Callahan

#11. I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, Jason," he said. "It's what I'll forget that matters.

Amber Dermont

#12. Consciousness amplifies the weak signals that, like cobwebs spun between trees, web Narratives together. Moreover, it amplifies them selectively and in that way creates feedback loops that steer the Narratives.

Neal Stephenson

#13. The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth.

Sally Mann

#14. Be the light. Be the love. Not to one or two selectively, but to each person who crosses your path today and every day.

Pooja Ruprell

#15. Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

Victoria Finlay

#16. Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.

Frederick Lenz

#17. One thing we've noticed is these days people see all kinds of things they don't want to see, so they go blind." "Selectively blind.

Dean Koontz

#18. The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or their own baggage of values and prejudices.

Paul Ham

#19. While violence was almost certainly the solution, Lenk knew he needed to apply it selectively.

Sam Sykes

#20. The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

John Lescroart

#21. A model is a selectively simplified and consciously structured form of knowledge.

Eric Evans

#22. Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.

Ivan Krastev

#23. Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards . . . helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next. - Albert Bandura20

Philip G. Zimbardo

#25. Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.

Stephen R. Prothero

#26. Many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.

Peg Bracken

#27. The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is ... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

Thorstein Veblen

#28. We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

Margaret MacMillan

#29. And thus they selectively remember parts of their life, focusing on those parts that support their own points of view.

Carol Tavris

#30. We can't selectively numb emotion. Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Brene Brown

#31. Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

Chris Hayes

#32. We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office ...

Mark Steyn

#33. Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

Michael Anti

#34. Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.

Vikram Seth

#35. The words and acts of the founding fathers, especially the first few presidents, shaped the form and tone of the civil religion as it has been maintained ever since. Though much is selectively derived from Christianity, this religion is clearly not itself Christianity. ROBERT BELLAH1

Gregory A. Boyd

#36. Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.

Michael Specter

#37. It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.

Roby James

#38. I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

Burt Ward

#39. People will selectively use "tradition" to justify anything.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#40. Fasting essentially slows (sometimes stops) rapidly dividing cells and triggers an 'energetic crisis' that makes cancer cells selectively vulnerable to chemo and radiation." There

Timothy Ferriss

#41. In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.

Frederick Lenz

#42. To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.

Charlie Munger

#43. He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.

Toni Morrison

#44. You can't be what I call selectively motivated, where you can only work hard and smart when things are going well.

Carla Harris

#45. The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.

Wendell Berry

#46. From a legal point of view - " He shook his head. "Forget the law. It isn't going to help. They'll cite it where it suits them, ignore it where it doesn't. They're clerics, Archeth. They spend their whole fucking lives selectively interpreting textual authority to advantage.

Richard K. Morgan

#47. Normality may lie in being a selectively deaf self-righteous victim of your own cognitive dissonance...but then again...who wants to be an open minded but self-doubting fence-sitter paralyzed by internal conflict? life eh?

Tweedy Peanut

#48. I'm a marginally intelligent, selectively confident, assertive woman

Ayisha Malik

#49. The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds - selectively, but resolutely - can an investor prosper over time. But for a while, a value investor typically underperforms.

Seth Klarman

#50. We are totally dysfunctional."
"I prefer 'selectively deviant'. But we'll keep that to ourselves.

Sylvia Day

#51. Yet we choose to remember history very selectively, favoring foresight over failure.

Thomas Rid

#52. We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Brene Brown

#53. As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

John Updike

#54. What Zionists did, as all nationalist movements before and since have done, was to read their history selectively and draw conclusions from it that would not have been understandable to their ancestors before the advent of the modern era.

James L. Gelvin

#55. Howlett speculated that the human cannabinoid system evolved to help us endure (and selectively forget) the routine slings and arrows of life "so that we can get up in the morning and do it all over again." It is the brain's own drug for coping with the human condition.

Michael Pollan

#56. I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.

Scott McClellan

#57. 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

#58. Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

Feng Zhang

#59. An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

Noah Feldman

#60. Nations such as Finland, Canada, Japan, and South Korea spend time and resources improving the skills of their teachers, not selectively firing them in relation to student test scores.

Diane Ravitch