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• I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Giving

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• Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Moving, Errors

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

  Jose Saramago

  Travel, Writing, Order

  "A Writer's Progress: An Interview with Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Novelist José Saramago". Interview with Anna Klobucka, masshumanities.org. Spring 2002.

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• Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Art, Expression

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• You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

  Ellis Peters

  Truth, Half, Demand

  Ellis Peters (2015). “House of Green Turf”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Barry Eisler

  Thinking, Government, Long

  "For Barry Eisler, when it rains, it pours". Interview with Mark Schreiber, www.japantimes.co.jp. September 7, 2003.

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• There is no place for nostalgia in a progressive world. The new school not only ignores nostalgia, but condemns it. The world of yesterday is becoming an isolated world of remembrances and echoes so forbidden that, to decorate the present with it, you must often do so with a sense of humor or belong to a select group.

  Eric Sloane

  School, Echoes, Yesterday

  Eric Sloane (1956). “American Yesterday. [With illustrations.]”, New York : W. Funk

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• Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.

  Edward de Bono

  Two, Suits You, Perception

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• To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the flesh or otherwise) horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Select your team with care, but when in doubt, take on some new crew and give them a chance. But avoid at all costs fluctuations of sincerity with your best people.

  Dan Eldon

  Children, Team, Eye

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• If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Children, Solitude, Quality

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.245, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card...I've already seen this trick.

  Michael Ammar

  Magic, Cards, Tricks

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• "Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.'

  Sandra Boynton

  Passion, Chocolate, Infinite

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• You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Self, People, Joy

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• Below are some quotations along these lines. Select a quote for your Gothic Myspace layout or contribute one of your own.

  Laura Ramirez

  Love, Lines, Gothic

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

  Antony Beevor

  Mean, Thinking, Historian

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• Hit them in their personal lives, visit their homes . Actively target U.S. military establishments within the United States... strike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity. Select another location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat in anonymity ... Do not get caught. DO NOT GET CAUGHT. Do not get sent to jail. Stay alert, keep active, and keep fighting.

  Craig Rosebraugh

  Military, Home, Fighting

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• I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Artist, Thinking, Musician

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• In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.

  Sam Rayburn

  Wise, Integrity, Character

  "Congressional Record", vol. 88, Appendix, (p. A3866), November 2, 1942.

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• Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

  Max Planck

  Intelligent, Curves, Light

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• I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know they aren't make-believe. They illustrate something about life. This is my major concern whenever I select a film

  Embeth Davidtz

  Believe, Mean, July

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• A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Art, School, Successful

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• To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Beautiful, Art, Lines

  "The Classical Landscape Paintings of J.M.W. Turner". Book by Dennis Hugh Halloran, p. 75, 1970.

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• Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Compassion, Mind, Vision

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Feb 06, 2017

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• With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Trying, Different

  "Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step". Book by Edward de Bono, 1970.

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• A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

  Millard Drexler

  Two, Smell, Six

  "The Merchant". Interview with Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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