Select Quotes · Page 3

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

— Robert McKee

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

— Russell M. Nelson

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

— Brad Leithauser

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

— Dan Buettner

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses…

— Francis Bacon

Liverpool is such a big club, and I was fortunate to be one of a select few to have played for them.…

— Charlie Adam

Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If…

— Ronald Reagan

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses…

— W. H. Auden

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time,…

— Millard Drexler

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and…

— George Eliot

What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus'…

— Tim LaHaye

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot…

— John F. Kennedy

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but…

— John Adams

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get…

— Brian Tracy

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire…

— George Henry Lewes

Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps,…

— Joe Quirk

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the…

— Richard DeVos

Positive energy is your priceless life force. Protect it. Don't allow people to draw from your reserves; select friends who recharge your…

— Chalene Johnson

First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be…

— Patrick Henry

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war…

— Cormac McCarthy

The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they…

— Jack Klugman

It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

You can set your self as much as be sick, or you'll be able to select to remain properly.

— Wayne Dyer

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find…

— Nora Roberts

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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

— Arthur Herzog

One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful

— Napoleon Hill

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— Laura Ramirez

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self-…

— Donald Trump

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

— Noam Chomsky

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

— Jack Klugman

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

— Sergio Aragones

Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.

— E. Merrill Root

I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.

— Max Lucado

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

— Franz Boas