Welcome to our collection of selective quotes, curated to inspire, motivate, and provoke thought. Throughout history, words have held immense power, shaping societies, influencing minds, and transcending barriers. In this repository of wisdom, we’ve gathered quotes from various thinkers, leaders, and visionaries, offering glimpses into the complexities of human experience and the boundless realms of imagination.
From timeless philosophical musings to contemporary insights, these quotes encapsulate the essence of profound ideas, stirring emotions, and sparking contemplation. Whether you seek guidance, solace, or simply a moment of reflection, you’ll find a treasure trove of words that resonate deeply with the human condition. Each quote is a testament to the enduring impact of language and the enduring quest for understanding and meaning in our lives.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. Wole Soyinka
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
Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That’s because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it. Ben Shapiro
No government can give a selective advantage to a specific company, because that would make competition unfair. Margrethe Vestager
I’m certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it’s partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren’t worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things. Peter York
I have selective hearing. Eddie Van Halen
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct. Daniel Dennett
In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and catered to vested interests. Linda Colley
Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it’s like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It’s not accurate or fair to compare the job they do. Dennis Moore
Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried – unless it is committed by an ‘aggrieved’ victim against what they consider a corrupt institution. Gary Bauer
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. Irving Babbitt
All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia. Ajith Kumar
I’m kind of selective of the people that I take photos of. Like, I don’t take pictures of just my friends, but I do like taking pictures of just some of my close mates, especially out in L.A. Brooklyn Beckham
I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn’t one of the bullies – I wasn’t strong or dominant enough to be one of the kids who bullied everyone in equal measure. I was a bully, in that I bullied a kid, whose name I won’t mention here. My bullying was selective and personal. Tom Junod
Singaporeans like Mr. Alfian Sa’at do not deserve to be admonished in Parliament on the basis of a selective reading of their works. Pritam Singh
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient. Sue Monk Kidd
It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian – or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions – as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities. Charles Murray
When I was younger, it was so much easier. All I needed to do was just get a job. It was like, ‘Oh, my God, I have a job! I can call myself a working actor.’ But then, the older you get, you have to be more selective, and that’s tough. Sebastian Stan
I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I’m also selective – that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy. Esther Rolle
I am very selective when it comes to scripts. Karthi
That’s the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don’t have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don’t have time for all that; I don’t want to get into it. Jonathan Safran Foer
I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don’t listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder. Alber Elbaz
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to ‘own’ them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again. Barry Ritholtz
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests’ lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I’m interviewing somebody, I’m getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. Terry Gross
I’m very selective about my scripts and about how I am projected on the screen. Karthi
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. Bill Vaughan
I think I’m lucky in that I can park things. I don’t dwell. I’ve got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don’t know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that. Graeme Souness
I am selective about what I give my time to. Lara Dutta
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
Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus. Adam Vinatieri
Magoo’s appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he’s not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it. Jim Backus
I tried working with the best of directors and producers. I tried being selective, but things didn’t work out. Now, I am open to working with anybody and everybody who is good. Or I’ll try to make it good. That suits me. Govinda
I’m more selective now I’ve got a family. I don’t want to work all the time. My daughter’s 12; I don’t want to miss out on her life. Soon she’ll be a teenager; she won’t want me around. Julie Walters
Once you identify positional needs, then I think, then, what you do is, you be very selective on how you go about acquiring those players. You have to look at the resources available on how to acquire those players, and then, if you can, go acquire those assets that can best help this team get over the hump. John Dorsey
I’m in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I’m passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social – it has travel, you meet people, it’s extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary – when I paint, I’m kind of in my own world. Tali Lennox
The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting. Heather Mac Donald
There is no rule of law in Zimbabwe; there’s selective application of the rule of law. Patrick Chinamasa, who is the minister of justice, destroyed the independent judiciary. Roy Bennett
I’m a selective pack rat. There’s some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly. Will Ferrell
I have been rather selective, doing not more than two or thee films a year, so that leaves me with plenty of time to prep for my plays and theatre activities. Pankaj Kapur
The future, for us, is not in bold and big deals. It is in selective deals, and I prefer to focus on one accretive target worth around 2 bn. than several deals worth 200 m. Thomas Buberl
When Czar Ivan III took a liking to the Judaizers, they were invited to Moscow, where they managed to convert so much of the court nobility in the last decades of the fifteenth century that traditionalists felt the need to counter the trend through selective burnings at the stake. Tom Reiss
I am open to doing TV but it will be very selective. Varun Sharma
I watch very selective television. I watch ‘Mad Men,’ and I usually watch a season at a time. Jane Lynch
I don’t even watch many huge films. I don’t go to the cinema every weekend. I watch selective cinema and want to make my kind of films. Kiran Rao
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond ‘black’ and ‘white,’ we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. Manning Marable
I don’t want to do things because it will please other people. I’m not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can’t plan these things. Tali Lennox
I don’t think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions. Derek Bok
The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation’s interests and enforcing its laws – all of them, not just selective ones – in a manner worthy of the department’s name. Raymond Kethledge
I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better. Jon Lovett
I’ve been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it’s really furthering what I want to do with my life. Kirk Cameron
I don’t work that much because I am selective. Nia Vardalos
Selective memory is surely one of nature’s most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species. Nigel Hamilton
When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. Ulrich Beck
I definitely eat carbs. I repeat: I do eat carbs. I’m just selective on which carbs I eat and when. I won’t eat things like pasta and bread at night, but in terms of fueling a workout and recovering from one, carbs are great. Sue Bird
Admission to the National Academy is highly competitive and selective. William Barr
The blessing of having your first project be something as fantastic as ‘Girls’ is that it gave me room to be selective because I didn’t feel pressure to do other things. The curse is that my standards were really high. Allison Williams
My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth. John Kennedy
I am selective. If I do splash out, it’s an investment, and I wear things for years. Erin O’Connor
I have been very selective in the South because I was always offered the biggest films. In Bollywood, things are different because multi-starrers are a norm. All big heroines are happy to be part of a big movie. Asin
I keep getting advice on the social media that I should be selective in accepting roles. But, as an actor, I get attracted to every role I’m offered. Joy Mathew
We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest. Frank Luntz
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection. Gabriel Lippmann
I am consciously selective of the work that I do. Mithila Palkar
It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept. Bill Watterson
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden’s motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations. Barton Gellman
If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court. Eleanor Holmes Norton
We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best. Brendan Iribe
I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals. David Roberts
There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in. Sue Monk Kidd
If you’re posting pictures to platforms like Instagram or Twitter, be selective about the one you post. If I’m capturing a sunset, I’ll take at least 10 pictures. I’ll then filter them using other apps, enhance them. Then, I really pick the best image of perhaps 30. Coco Rocha
In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life. Haris Pasovic
Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust. Shelley Long
To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills. Laura van den Berg
I’m a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I’m very careful – very selective about what I read because I don’t read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal. Philip Schultz
We read the whole Bible, cover to cover, over and over again… It wasn’t that we read selective parts of the Bible. It was that we interpreted it in this very selective way. Megan Phelps-Roper
I’m in a unique position in that my career in music is not over and I have other television things and ventures I can get into. So, it’s like I can be very selective when it comes to movie roles. Xzibit
I’m being more selective about what I do, but really, it’s just, if I love it, I’ma do it. It’s that simple. Anthony Ramos
Collections collect collectors. It doesn’t work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness. Allan Gurganus
Most national holidays in most countries rest on selective memories of the past. Linda Colley
I’m very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it. Jonathan Groff
Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits. Pamela Druckerman
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche. Alain de Botton
I’ve been very selective in what I did and didn’t do. Larry Wilcox
I’ve always been selective about my roles. Urmila Matondkar
I’m always open to anything. I haven’t been that selective, I’ve just been fortunate to get projects I’m excited about. It’s a little bizarre being a part of things that you really, really enjoy. Jesse Plemons
For the past few years, I’ve been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that’s finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it’s only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. Lizzy Caplan
We only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed. So we have to be really selective about where we dig. Sarah Parcak
I use Facebook, but I find that I’m… if I put up a picture of my dog there or a sunset or something, I get a million hits. If I mention anything to do with my career, three people respond. And/or if I say anything political, I have to duck afterwards. I try to be selective. Michael McDonald
Well, in our industry it’s that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that’s part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you’ll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies. Chris Wedge
I prefer selective memories. Some songs and some co-workers are all that I want to remember, as memories are not always so pleasant. Asha Bhosle
There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I’m selective about what I want to share with the world now. Zoe Sugg
I’m still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I’m still doing that. But I don’t want to do like just anything so we’re being really selective about the stuff I’ll do. Kim Smith
I think people take for granted the success of the original content at A&E Networks and in building brands. People have selective memory on how long that takes. Nancy Dubuc
There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism. Jamie Hyneman
I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don’t know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I’m wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with. Sharon Stone
Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure. Kyle Hill
The good part is once I start directing, I can choose the songs I want to do. I’m just selective now when it comes to choreography. Remo D’Souza
I’m an oversharer but selective about who I share with. Harriet Walter
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
New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form. Jim Walsh