Quotes about Selecting

Businessman, Artist, Painter

I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

Change - Discouragement - Energy - Events - Feelings - Impression - Return - Selecting

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Joseph Campbell

Public Servant, Author, Writer

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

Help - Imagination - Mythology - Perception - Relationship - Selecting - Society - Unconscious

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Admiration - Art - Conditioning - Selecting

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Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Investor, Humanitarian

If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.

Challenge - Creativity - Goals - Help - Selecting - Trial

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Stephen King

Writer

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Book - Ownership - Selecting - Teaching

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Samuel Beckett

Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Theatre Director

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Personal - Selecting

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Selecting

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Epictetus

Clergyman, Philosopher, Philosopher

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

Blindness - Flattery - Selecting - Soul

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

Nuns - Religion - Selecting

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Milton Friedman

Athlete, Economist, Economist

Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.

Order - Selecting

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Neale Donald Walsch

Writer, Author, Author

Therefore, be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing. Then, do it gladly, knowing that you are always getting to do what you want. The statement "I have no choice" is a lie. You can choose. You simply do not prefer the alternatives available to you, for whatever reason. So you select the outcome that you most prefer.

Alternative - Availability - Choice - Honesty - Knowledge - Lie - Outcome - Reason - Selecting - Wants

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Vladimir Nabokov

Leader, Novelist, Novelist

I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.

Novel - Order - Selecting - Story - Whole - Writing

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Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Investor, Humanitarian

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

Finding - Help - Selecting - Shooting - Thinking - Wants - Willing

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Simon Sinek

Historian, Author, Author

Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.

Facts - People - Phone - Reason - Remembering - Selecting

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Allen Ginsberg

Poet

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.

Interpretation - Selecting - War

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Bruce Lee

Martial Artist, Philosopher, Actor, Director,

There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?

Ability - Man - Mythology - Selecting

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Samuel Beckett

Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Theatre Director

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Selecting

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalist, Founder of Analytical Psychology

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

Ailment - Selecting - Wellness

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.

Inferiority - Man - Mindset - Religion - Selecting - Trickery - Vanity - Whole

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

Axiom - Choice - Selecting

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