Quotes about Selected

Consider One Thing Always, We Are Just Selected". Votes: 3

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents. Votes: 2

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie. Votes: 2

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. Votes: 2

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few. Votes: 2

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. Votes: 2

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs. Votes: 2

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. Votes: 2

Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them. Votes: 2

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides. Votes: 2

I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career. Votes: 2

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. Votes: 2

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better. Votes: 2

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion. Votes: 2

As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket. Votes: 2

I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward. Votes: 2

At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was. Votes: 2

I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community. Votes: 2

I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government. Votes: 2

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering. Votes: 2

If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I'd be able to say 'thank you' to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame. And also say thank you to my teammates, and also to all the fans. It's going to be like a dream come true. Votes: 2

The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary. Votes: 2

For me, getting older doesn't mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, it's about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesn't suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits. Votes: 2

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. Votes: 2

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them. Votes: 2

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' Votes: 2

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class. Votes: 2

Presidents are selected, not elected. Votes: 0

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. Votes: 0

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories Votes: 0

I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed. Votes: 0

Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care Votes: 0

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master. Votes: 0

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists. Votes: 0

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities Votes: 0

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. Votes: 0

Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected. Votes: 0

I've decided to get into shape, and the shape I've selected is a triangle. Votes: 0

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit. Votes: 0

Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs. Votes: 0

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central. Votes: 0

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness. Votes: 0

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. Votes: 0

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money. Votes: 0

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art. Votes: 0

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. Votes: 0

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same. Votes: 0

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context. Votes: 0

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron. Votes: 0

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence. Votes: 0

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. Votes: 0

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America. Votes: 0

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America. Votes: 0

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. Votes: 0

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people. Votes: 0

I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States. Votes: 0

I didn't see myself as the busty type. Too bad bodies are issued randomly, not selected to match your personality Votes: 0

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected. Votes: 0

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes. Votes: 0

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era. Votes: 0

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. Votes: 0

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. Votes: 0

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp Votes: 0

The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated. Votes: 0

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them. Votes: 0

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected. Votes: 0

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Votes: 0

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service. Votes: 0

We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent. Votes: 0

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian. Votes: 0

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so. Votes: 0

In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people. Votes: 0

She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show. Votes: 0

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors. Votes: 0

A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations. Votes: 0

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch. Votes: 0

No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them. Votes: 0

It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class. Votes: 0

Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight. Votes: 0

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, Votes: 0

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience. Votes: 0

When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either. Votes: 0

...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed. Votes: 0

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines. Votes: 0

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. Votes: 0

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. Votes: 0

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals Votes: 0

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect. Votes: 0

We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply. Votes: 0

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance. Votes: 0

On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation. Votes: 0

Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person. Votes: 0

Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.' Votes: 0

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play. Votes: 0

I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955. Votes: 0

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. Votes: 0

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps. Votes: 0

The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow a political and selected pattern. Votes: 0

It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way. Votes: 0

Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course. Votes: 0

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships. Votes: 0

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science. Votes: 0

Time magazine has selected their person of the year. Guess what, it's President-elect Barack Obama. Yeah, ironically, Ebony magazine announced their person of the year, and it's Ed Begley Jr. Votes: 0

I'm so very proud to be a part of Playmate history. It's such an honour to be one of 12 girls selected each year to represent Playboy all over the world! Votes: 0

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different. Votes: 0

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs. Votes: 0

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place. Votes: 0

Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary. Votes: 0

We don't want to disqualify individuals who are selected partly because they bring that diverse experience to the court in cases where that experience is most likely to make a difference. Votes: 0

Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain. Votes: 0

Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us. Votes: 0

I feel very privileged Williams has selected me as one of their race drivers. The team has great heritage and I hope I can help write a good chapter in their history. Votes: 0

I visited Eduardo Miura's ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem. Votes: 0

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi. Votes: 0

In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians. Votes: 0

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us. Votes: 0

Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar Votes: 0

Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth. Votes: 0

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions. Votes: 0

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society. Votes: 0

I have been studying now for about 2 years, on a rather intensive basis, the UFO problem. I have interviewed several hundred witnesses in selected cases, and I am astonished at what I have found. Votes: 0

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country. Votes: 0

Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master. Votes: 0

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed. Votes: 0

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved. Votes: 0

Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat. Votes: 0

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up. Votes: 0