Selective Quotes

• 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

  Smell, Brain, Influence

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• Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Memories, Mind, Body

  "Letter to My Younger Self: Phylicia Rashad" by Phylicia Rashad, www.oprah.com. April 2006.

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• The selective memory isn't selective enough.

  Blake Morrison

  Memories, Enough

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• Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspiring, Focus, Important

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

  William James

  Order, Mind, Experience

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.402, Courier Corporation

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• Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Love Is, Giving

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• To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

  Claude Simon

  Memories, Perspective, Perception

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• In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Thinking

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• The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.

  Simon Sinek

  Believe, People, Goal

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.62, Penguin

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• Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

  Wole Soyinka

  Lying, Form, Domination

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• The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Leadership, Teacher, Real

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• What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Sex, Children, Childhood

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• A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Ideas, Mind, Use

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• I have selective hearing.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Hearing

  "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

  Richard Koch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.127, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• 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

  Believe, Science, People

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• The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

  Philip K. Dick

  Unconscious

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

  Herb Ritts

  Black And White, Luxury, Labs

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• The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

  Orson Scott Card

  Choices, Community, Survival

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• 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

  Real, People, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've got to be kind of careful because I've had good advice: "Don't sell yourself too short." I have to not be too available to everything that comes along. I've always been a people pleaser and now I'm upping the ante in terms of price so I can be more selective. I really enjoyed working on three tracks on Sara Groves' [parenthood-focused] album Station Wagon. I love playing on those songs and I love the heart in that album.

  Phil Keaggy

  Song, Heart, People

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• An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

  Graham Greene

  Errors, May, Biographies

  1971 A Sort of Life, preface.

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• Composition is selective improvisation.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Improvisation, Composition

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• Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Ignorance, Kids

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.22, Penguin

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

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Reality, Judgment

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.60, Penguin

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