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• Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

  Marianne Williamson

  Focus, Decision, Remember

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

  Diane Ackerman

  Past, Poetry, Telescopes

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

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• I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

  Virgilia Peterson

  Memories, Doe, Choke

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Perfect, Nine, Months

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

  Roy Romer

  School, Colorado, Students

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• The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.

  Laozi

  Memories, Ideas, Information

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Vision, Cameras

  Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

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• Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Light, Perfection

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• 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

  Heart, Parenting, Attention

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• Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Love Is, Desire, Stranger

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• Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there is no room for interpretation; you either take all of it or none. There is no selective belief

  Stephen Colbert

  Religious, Leaving, Rooms

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• No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and you're being selective again. You develop a point of view that you want to express. You try to go into a situation with an open mind, but then you form an opinion, and you express it in your photographs.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Thinking, Views, Mind

  Interview with Constance Sullivan, www.americansuburbx.com. 1990.

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• Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Memories, Recollection, Fortunate

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• Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us - as a society - for our selective, casual complicity in devaluing it. Ward's account of these losses is founded in a compelling emotional honesty, and graced with moments of stark poetry.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Honesty, Loss, Men

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• The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.

  Felix Riesenberg

  Sea, Effort, Aptitude

  "Living Again: An Autobiography".

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• When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.

  Simon Sinek

  Believe

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

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• To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.

  Berenice Abbott

  Philosophy, Eye, Reality

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• I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

  Timbaland

  Hip Hop, Hips, Excitement

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• 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

  Memories, Grateful, Thinking

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• It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Differences, Links, Detours

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.

  Sasha Grey

  People, Actors, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.

  George Henry Lewes

  Artist, Phrases, Use

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• 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

  War, Drama, Two

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• Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Space, Mind

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• [Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's been doing drugs for 20 years and functioning for 20 years, and in those 20 years there've been hundreds of people who've been getting high constantly and behaved very destructively and have not been arrested. Robert's real problem is he gets caught.

  James Toback

  Sweet, Real, Being Single

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