A Quote by Malcolm Forbes

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Fortunate How Our Selective

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Malcolm Forbes
American - Publisher
August 19, 1919 - February 24, 1990

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

Kirk Cameron

Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.

Terence McKenna

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

Wilson Flagg

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

Flann O'Brien

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

Mira Bartok

But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

Yossi Klein Halevi

Remember, don't waste time comparing your life to others who seem more fortunate. Being fortunate is based on how much peace you have, not how many luxuries or conveniences you have. Practice from the heart to make peace with what is.

Doc Childre

He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.

Warren Farrell

I'm always open to anything. I haven't been that selective, I've just been fortunate to get projects I'm excited about. It's a little bizarre being a part of things that you really, really enjoy.

Jesse Plemons

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

Martial

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

Timbaland

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Blake Morrison

I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very fortunate and understand how fortunate I am.

Rachel Bloom

We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.