Selected Quotes
Selected Quote of the day
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.
I visited Eduardo Miura’s ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem.
Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.
Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'
That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.
In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.
The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.
A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.
Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.
I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
I'm so very proud to be a part of Playmate history. It's such an honour to be one of 12 girls selected each year to represent Playboy all over the world!
I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...
Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.
Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.
We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.
On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.
Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.
When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.
... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.
We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.
In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.
I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.
There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.