If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please.
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
I have to admit that I am not great at selecting music for CDs! I have a few personal favorites, and then I let my producer take it from there!
The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.
All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.
If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.
By. . . [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.
They’d played “Sweet Home, Alabama” so many times I wanted to crash the party, kill the radio, and knife whoever was selecting the music.
There’s always tomorrow. ” “Exactly,” she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.
Managing the creative process means selecting the best people and then letting them do their work. That means nurturing. It also means, from time to time, creating drama - even uncertainty - so that the creative environment has an edge to it, a charge, and does not run out of steam.
Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.
Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.
