Selective Quotes

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

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

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.

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

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

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

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.

I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King."

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

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.

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.

When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.

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.

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

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.

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.

I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.

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

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

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

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

At the beginning of my career, fresh out of college, I did everything that I could do. And now I'm a little bit more selective. I think that's sort of a natural process.

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

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

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.

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners.

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.

Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.

In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants...then she is not the one.

Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.

Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.

When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.

Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.

Selective listening is more poisonous than the snake bite.Either you listen or you don't listen. Choice is yours!!!