All things are divine. And yet, we pick and choose among them what’s appropriate.Frederick LenzDivinitySelection Share this
When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.Leslie CockburnClaritySelection Share this
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.Louis KahnIntegrationSelection Share this
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.Louisa May AlcottEnjoymentFriendshipSelection Share this
People have enough ideas. The real question is “Which ideas are you going to use?”.Michael RayCreativitySelectionUtilization Share this
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.Walter CronkiteEducationLeadershipSelection Share this
God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.Jack HylesEmpowermentGratitudeSelection Share this
Time is very important to art and if you don’t have the time to select, art goes out the window.Jack KlugmanArtSelectionTime Share this
What you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.Daniel HandlerImportanceSelection Share this
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.Arthur HelpsEnthusiasmLeadershipSelection Share this
The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.Seth GodinInfluenceReflectionSelection Share this
You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That’s really the most complicated part.Joan DidionCharacterizationComplexitySelection Share this
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.Arne JacobsenArtCreativitySelection Share this
Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.Kafu NagaiArtNatureSelection Share this
Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.Joseph StalinPeopleSelection Share this
. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.Noam ChomskySelectionSimplicity Share this
But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.Stephen BreyerAutonomyIndependenceSelection Share this
The answer is that we don’t choose our freaks, they choose us.Steve AlmondAcceptanceFateSelection Share this
If the Space Beings want to contact you, they will do so. They do the choosing.Brad SteigerDestinySelection Share this
It’s not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.Bryan FerryRelationshipSelectionSuccess Share this
All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.N. T. WrightHistorySelection Share this
The less determined and the less motivated weed themselves out.Chuck DalyDeterminationMotivationSelection Share this
We didn’t choose the joke because it’s filthy! We chose it because of the structure!Paul ProvenzaHumorSelectionStructure Share this
Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.Pauline OliverosActionInterpretationSelection Share this
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Charlie Munger Achievement Deserving Success
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Jean Cocteau Deception Perception Reality
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Jean Cocteau Identity Individuality Rebellion
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Charlie Munger Worry
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Charlie Munger Criticism Past Stupidity