Select Quotations

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?

Our success as a global brand has been directly related to how we select locations where we are confident our particular clients desire to be. Los Cabos, Mexico is the ideal Engel & Volkers market, growing in popularity among world luxury travelers seeking exceptional properties for second home opportunities.

Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Sometimes these challenges naturally select more chefs that can think on their feet very quickly. There are chefs I know who won't put things on the menu unless they've tried it four or five times. So you just naturally select a certain kind of chef, people who maybe don't win a bunch of challenges but they hang around.

If you are creative enough to select the ideal vocation, you can win, win big time. The really brilliant millionaires are those who selected a vocation that they love, one that has few competitors but generates high profits.

I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.

In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.

I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Unfortunately, I think YouTube is going down the route of rewarding the select few around content creation, be it with partnerships or with ways of funding original content.

We've got a whole bunch of select that are more tender than a whole bunch of choice.

Whenever you change technology, there will always be select individuals who will be resistant. When ATMs were introduced, people were saying, 'I don't want to get my money out of that box.' Now, hardly anyone walks into a bank.

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

We developed a team to select a board and took it to the commissioners and that's how the library (at its current location) got started.

The process is working, but we still have to judiciously select our new markets and the ones where we expand. It's a matter of timing and restraint to let the major competition get out of the marketplace.

We have a short time to prepare and I'm yet to select a final squad, but I'm expecting that the core group of the Under-20 girls will form the senior squad... the other girls who will join are experienced enough to fit in.

When you're a minister you're all over the place. When you're mayor you can get home for dinner. If the voters select her, I think it would be a much different family lifestyle.

We had brake issues to start with, then a gearbox, then brakes again. Then we had some engine belts fall off three or four times. Yeah, and we couldn't select some gears. I thought, eventually, it was going to knock us off the lead, but the team seemed to have an answer every time.

When these organizations looked back, in terms of criteria they did or would use to select CRM software, product capabilities were not nearly as important as most once thought they were.

There are people who want their kids to read books about gays and lesbians. Therefore, we have an obligation to have those books. We select those books the same way we select all others -- based on their literary merit.

Let your kids select the vegetables they want as pizza toppings.

Let's say I'm in Carroll County and I needed a backhoe. I could select backhoe, then click, and the database gives me a list of people in Carroll County who've volunteered their backhoes in case of an emergency.

License buyers have asked for - and we attempted to provide - more advance notice of season dates to help them select their vacation days. However, since deer harvest data will not be available until mid-March and bear and wild turkey harvest results were just made available, the Board and staff concluded more time was needed before taking final action on the 2006-07 seasons and bag limits.

Many beneficiaries are asking what they can be doing right now to prepare, ... Make a checklist. Write down the names of the drugs you take, the dosages and frequency. Write down the pharmacies you like to use. And write down what kind of prescription drug coverage you already have, if you have any. When beneficiaries start comparing plans in October, they can choose a plan that covers the drugs they take, supplies them through the pharmacy or mail order they prefer, and they can select a plan that fits their budget.

Scripps has lived up to every commitment they have made and it's clear that the onus is now on the county to locate and select a suitable site for their home.

Secondary metabolites are bioactive compounds that are only produced at select times during the life cycle of the organism.

Millions of people will now have another vehicle to use to select a health plan just at the time when they need it. We look forward to working with U.S. News to identify the industry standouts and to shine a spotlight on health care quality.

Mt. Carmel will do an architectural review to select one of these buildings.

One of our decisions was to select a well-validated system and install it early in the process, when we could get by with fewer people to administrate it. You've got to start from the ground up. Trying to implement a PLM solution in the middle or the back end of a development cycle adds a degree of complication that may not be worth it.

No, no, I go where the work is, wherever it is. I'll go, I mean, if I select it, but I don't try and ration it out or balance it at all.

On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.

My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.

Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'm confident that I can do a good job in articulating why President Obama ought to be the candidate that Americans select for the next four years.

My sense is that the games will break even, but we're unlikely to make a lot of money. It's like having people over to dinner. The food may be not so expensive, but you need to select the right furniture, carpets, and so on.

NDS allows you to get away from the NT vs. NetWare vs. Unix argument and select the operating system that is best suited to each need,

I wouldn't say that I have faith in hedge funds per se, but I have reasonable faith in our ability to discriminately select high-quality partners, ... You're seeing a lot of hedge fund problems now because there's such mindless enthusiasm on the part of the public. A lot of the entrants are low-quality, and you've got a lot of people crashing around doing dumb things.

I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.

If we can finish undefeated I think it would put us in select company. I don't know if we would be the best, but it sure wouldn't take long to call roll.

I do not think students should have to read a select number of classics,

I am a good boy. Sweet. I love to chill. I have a select set of friends, am big on house music, love Goa. I don't read much. Though that is one habit I am trying to inculcate.

But the way it happened, after it was all over, it was unanimous that we select Erskine.

But considering China mainland's scandal-riddled brokerage sector, any concrete move may not come early this year before risk-management rules are finalized while only select brokerages are likely to be included at the initial stage.

Basically the first half-hour of the opera is an extended prologue, which is all material from the first two weeks of July 1945, ... Germany has just capitulated. Truman is meeting Stalin at Potsdam, which is where all this pressure comes from for the test to work. Oppenheimer has been in these meetings in Washington to select the target, and it's full steam ahead to Japan.

I make a playlist for every character I portray. Music plays a huge part in helping me understand a character. Every time I get a new role, I will take a chunk of time to just sit and listen to a bunch of songs and select the ones that make sense in my mind for that character. I can't even explain how much it helps me.

I have spoken to David James today and explained to him that, on this occasion, I think it's best not to select him,

I have been observing Samaras for quite a while and now was the appropriate time to select him.

I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as a fairly thoughtful person. I don't go into projects impetuously, and I try to select important problems.

Getting him to be faster than the rest of the horses was a real challenge because the horses all want to win. We have to select a horse that's going to win. In this case, he's got to be bay, he's got to be plain-looking, he's got to be small.

Gains in the market are fund-led. Trading in the region remains relatively strong with funds pursuing select stocks, among them metals. Overnight gains on Wall Street also helped sentiment.

I don?t think you can select any player who is in such bad form in his career. Somehow, he does not look like capable of scoring runs.

If the analyst is communicating his findings to a select group of people and it might lead to proprietary trading by his employer, then you might have problems. But if he is publishing information for a widespread audience, I have less of a problem with it,

He takes great pride in it. He's always attentive to the game situation, knows when we're going to probably crank 'er up a little bit more than normal based on the situation. There's no dialogue; he's there before I ever get there. Kind of like you see guys in the Home Run Derby. They bring in their own batting practice pitcher. There's a select comfort you get from somebody.

He's coming into this knowing he'll be a fresh voice and pair of eyes in evaluations. I think he's going to be able to start from scratch, in terms of evaluations of goaltenders. Hopefully he'll allow us to make the right choices and select a starter.

He hasn't hit .700 or thrown eight no-hitters, but a select group of teams has seen in him what I see. The pool he will be drafted in is quite a bit smaller, but the teams in that pool are quite a bit interested.

He is a very important player to us and it would be too risky to select him now. It's better for him at the moment to continue to train with Bayern.

There is no bigger promotional platform than the Olympics. I'm honored that NBC is utilizing one of its most cherished and powerful assets to help drive buzz for The Apprentice brand. This promotion marks the first time I've ever invited the public to select a cast member for one of my shows.

There is follow-through buying of select H-shares, mainly commodity stocks.

We've been underdogs most of the season. We had books ranking us 15th (in the Big East), saying we had the worst backcourt in the nation and look what we did. If they select us, I have no doubt that my team will go to the tournament ready to play.

Unless we feel totally totally opposed to the legislation we should allow legislation to go to select committee to give the public an opportunity to have a say.

I always felt that Mike was going to replace me as the head coach at Penn State. The question is, am I replacing my opening or am I trying to select my replacement?

Kerry's swift action in beginning this process to select a running mate indicates what type of president the nation can expect -- decisive, focused and ready to lead, ... I very much look forward to being part of the team that will bring change to America.

I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

I think it's a bad precedent to arbitrarily select lands in a hasty manner and trade important public land to buy asphalt to fill potholes on county roads.

It is a great opportunity for these young ladies. I mean, how often does this happen? You are in a select group of 50 soccer players and you get to have first-hand experience with Mia?

I think the one distinction is that the store experience at traditional retailers is designed around how consumers react when they walk in the store, ... How do you select a product off the shelf? The same thought has to work for consumers on the Internet. They can click one button and be gone.

I think that reflects some of what we are about as Vikings, ... Unfortunately there are a select few. I think there was a movie called, Above the Law . ... It is a shame.

It gives us the ability to select who is going to see this information and make sure it does not go to someone who does not have a need to know.

It has a lot to do with the coaching that these girls are getting at the select level. The select programs in Middle Tennessee are really beginning to pick up. Girls are trying to find the best teams that they can to play on.

It is important for students to choose a college where they feel comfortable and have the opportunity to excel academically and personally. When it comes to evaluating schools to select the best fit, nothing beats a first-hand look.

It is indeed fitting and appropriate that Bob Lewis be included in this select company. Through this race for generations to come, horsemen and the public alike will be able to associate Bob Lewis with aspiring young 3-year-olds on their way to the Santa Anita Derby.

I think we're in a situation right now with our football team where we're not going into the draft with a glaring hole, or a glaring need that we must address. I think we're going in now, probably more so than any time that we've been together in Jacksonville, where we can go in and just select the best player and fill some depth on our football team that may emerge as a starter some day. In some cases, they'll have a hard time making our team, because it's a stronger team than we've had.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

I resign from the head of the party. I would like the party to select a new leader without any delay. Our message did not reach people. I regret that.

Pebble Beach was the ideal site for the Bing Crosby event and Augusta National is, of course, the perfect site for The Masters. Wynn Las Vegas is the perfect location for The Ultimate Game. We are honored Steve Wynn would select our event to be played on his course.

Over the course of our career we've been fortunate enough to share the stage with a select few of the bands we grew up on, admired and respected including AC/DC, Deep Purple, Guns N' Roses and Iron Maiden. The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

Our proposal would create a select national commission on youth violence whose mandate would be to deliberately examine the many possible root causes of this crisis.