Top 306 Selective Quotes & Sayings

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

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

No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and you're being selective again. You develop a point of view that you want to express. You try to go into a situation with an open mind, but then you form an opinion, and you express it in your photographs.

I am selective about what I give my time to.

I am very selective when it comes to scripts.

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.

I don't work that much because I am selective.

Sometimes I can't tell that someone is a selective asshole because they're so nice to me and the people around me that I don't realize it until someone else says, "You know, that person is an asshole." So I'll be fooled by selective assholes sometimes . . . lately.

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

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.

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

I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.

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

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

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

Composition is selective improvisation.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.

The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution of species, must cause this zone to be crossed and perhaps recrossed relatively rapidly in the course of evolutionary change, so that many possible gene substitutions may have a fluctuating history of advance and regression before the final balance of selective advantage is determined.

Drag isn't a selective club. It's something everyone can be welcomed to.

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

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

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.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.

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.

Admission to the National Academy is highly competitive and selective.

I have selective hearing.

I've always been really selective. I just didn't have the right to be as selective in other years, I guess. It's very difficult to commit so much of your life to go shoot something that you think sucks, so I'd rather do nothing than go work on something that I really hate. Obviously, there are moments where you have to take jobs for money, everybody needs to pay their rent or whatever.

We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best.

I'm an oversharer but selective about who I share with.

I am consciously selective of the work that I do.

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

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

I am selective with my Bollywood career.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

I have always been selective about people who enter my life.

I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.

I am open to doing TV but it will be very selective.

The directors are selective in their choice of actors and sometimes, those choices smack of arrogance.

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

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

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

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.

Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure.

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.

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

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

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

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

I've always been selective about my roles.

I'm being more selective about what I do, but really, it's just, if I love it, I'ma do it. It's that simple.

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.

We read the whole Bible, cover to cover, over and over again... It wasn't that we read selective parts of the Bible. It was that we interpreted it in this very selective way.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.

I was a bit selective. You know when you start with the best you don't want to settle for anything that you are not sure of.