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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
— Ayn Rand
If reading isn't about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely selective kind of sharing.
— Daniel Pennac
I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.
— Sasha Grey
I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .
— Michael Pitt
His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught.
— Paul Theroux
Any one of us could be made to look a monster, with selective readings of our history.
— Abigail Haas
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.
— Claude Simon
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.
— Randolph M. Nesse
I wanna be selective ... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.
— Timbaland
With increased self-awareness comes focus... We become selective. We refrain from jumping to grab every opportunity that comes on our way...
— Assegid Habtewold
Because his memory is so selective, he has no scars from prior experience, said Vinny.
— Michael Lewis
I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.
— Nicole Williams
I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.
— Will Ferrell
I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating. Alison Bechdel — Leah Price
Every chick in a long-term relationship will agree that men have selective hearing.
— Rachel Thompson
Composition is selective improvisation.
— Igor Stravinsky
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.
— Will Ferrell
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
— Richard Paul Evans
It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with.
— Frederick Lenz
I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.
— Erin O'Connor
We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best.
— Brendan Iribe
Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.
— Nigel Hamilton
Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.
— Andreas Feininger
I am kind of being a little selective in what I do, so it takes a little bit longer, but it's worth it in the end.
— Chrissie Fit
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
— Rod Serling
The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit.
— Felix Riesenberg
Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either.
— Judith Guest
Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As I get older, I am becoming more selective of who I consider a friend. I find that I would rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
— Steve Maraboli
Thank God for tunnel vision. Thank God for selective perception. Because without it, we might as well all be in a Lovecraft story.
— Stephen King
Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive.
— Timothy Ferriss
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
— Wole Soyinka
Eve is gorgeous, and she gets plenty of attention from guys, but her taste is selective. She only dates complete jerks.
— J.B. Salsbury
Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.
— Shelley Long
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.
— Jonathan Haidt
Tell me dear, what do you know about prescribing atypical antipsychotics to enchance the effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors?
— Sherrie Cronin
A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.
— Shannon L. Alder
People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn't keep.
— Shannon L. Alder
It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective.
— Mandy Hale
Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.
— Donald Miller
I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners.
— Lauren Conrad
What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
— Alanis Morissette
The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.
— A.J. Darkholme
Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
— Malcolm Forbes
Google: the selective use of polygraphs
— David Howard
You're selective when it comes to sex, but once you're with someone, the standards you would normally hold yourself to go out the window ...
— Nicholas Sparks
Memories are not always the best measure of things.
— Amy Neftzger
Lady Luck is a selective bitch.
— Kristen Callihan
Being a good person doesn't mean you fit the life of every person you meet.
— Shannon L. Alder
Love is an exercise in selective perception
— Esther Perel
Being selective is self-protective.
— David Posen
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
— Richard Harris
The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.
— Shannon L. Alder
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
— Charles Hugh Smith
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
— Edward Abbey
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
— Bill Vaughan
Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.
— Moutasem Algharati
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
— Bill Watterson
The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.
— Philip K. Dick
I don't taste and tell. Don't worry though. I'm very selective
— Kallypso Masters
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
— Gabriel Lippmann
I practise selective deafness to hurtful remarks.
— Scott Lynch
Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves
— Dathan Auerbach
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
— Yann Martel
The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war. — Kenneth Kaunda
The selective memory isn't selective enough.
— Blake Morrison
I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.
— Richard Gere
Sometimes, to destroy evil, it takes something equally dark; a selective malevolence that will do what others will not, or cannot do.
— Robert G. Moons
If you need to be selective about the work at a company, maybe you need to be more selective about the company you work for!
— Bruce Outridge
A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.
— Radhanath Swami
I have selective hearing.
— Eddie Van Halen
A bitch is more selective about her availability. She's availablesometimes; other times she's not. But she's nice. — Sherry Argov
She wonders if memory is little more than this: a series of erasure and perfected selections.
— Cristina Garcia
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
— Tim Ferriss
