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

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention. — Boris Sidis

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

Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective — Wole Soyinka

Selective memory is one of the chief sins of the old, and I don't have time for it. — Stephen King

Because his memory is so selective, he has no scars from prior experience, said Vinny. — Michael Lewis

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call. — Ronny Cox

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

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger — Wes Fesler

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

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect. — Hippocrates

Selective deafness was one of the many time-honored survival mechanisms of motherhood. — Nikki Sex

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

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say. — Brian Tracy

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

I used to think God wouldn't talk to me, but now I know I'm just selective with what I choose to hear. — Bob Goff

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

I have learned that I must be selective when, where, and with whom I dream out loud. — Steve Lawson

There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now. — Zoe Sugg

Being a good person doesn't mean you fit the life of every person you meet. — Shannon L. Alder

Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch in stitches. — Angelica Hopes

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

I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective. — Charli XCX

The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with. — Shannon L. Alder

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. — Frank Luntz

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

Memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time. — Fay Weldon

I'm not a big shopper. I'm very very picky about what it is that I buy, I prefer to buy vintage and then I prefer to be very selective. — Jaime King

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

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

Selective hearing ... typical male. Maybe he was human after all ... — Cameo Renae

The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for. — Philip K. Dick

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. — Emily Oster

I don't taste and tell. Don't worry though. I'm very selective — Kallypso Masters

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective. — Kevin Systrom

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

The best of my essence is shown to those who value my energy and appreciate my love, some would call it selfish, I call it selective. — Nikki Rowe

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

Dwelling on your problems doesn't fix them; it just makes you an expert at them. — Tommy Newberry

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 available
sometimes; 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

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. — Julian Jaynes

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