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Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

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.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

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.

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.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

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.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

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.

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

True friends are families which you can select.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.

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].

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

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.

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.