Be Selective Quotes

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We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

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.

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

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

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

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.

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

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

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

I have selective hearing.

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.

Composition is selective improvisation.

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

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

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.

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.

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.

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.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

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

I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective.

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.

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.

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.

Ben Carson also denounced [Donald] Trump's ban all Muslims proposal saying we do not and would not advocate being selective on one's religion.

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

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

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.

The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

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.

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.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

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

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

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.

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.

Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would explore a scene to find what was most interesting for him.

I've come to be pretty selective about the type of advocacy that I do, because I kind of feel like it's stronger to just do my work and let it speak for itself.