Selects Quotes
39 quotes by 35 authors
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the…
— Lytton Strachey
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation,…
— Abraham Hayward
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Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.
— Galen Rowell
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It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice
— David Landes
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Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.
— Egon Friedell
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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
— Austin O'Malley
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The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is…
— James P. Hogan
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Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of…
— Stephen Shore
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One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy.…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are…
— Stephen Hawking
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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…
— Virgilia Peterson
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Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many…
— Napoleon Hill
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for…
— John Foster
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
— Anton Chekhov
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Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features…
— Francisco Goya
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Most of the photographs I make are personal pictures and never end up in print. Even the magazines I shoot for on assignment publish very…
— David Alan Harvey
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
— Thomas A. Edison
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