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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments.

Ayn Rand

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?

C. S. Lewis

There will be selective application against Arabs and Muslims and this is pure form of discrimination.

Nihad Awad

We don't know what these new variants do. But they might confer a selective advantage by improving cognitive abilities. This needs to be confirmed.

Bruce T. Lahn

Microsoft is one of the world's leading companies and is notoriously selective over which organizations it chooses to partner, ... resurrect the stadium as the world's leading sports and entertainment venue.

Michael Cunnah

I don't want to say athletics drives applications. But our enrollment management people will say we're getting more and more applications and therefore can be more selective in choosing our freshman class. They believe an awful lot of that is due to the visibility and national exposure we receive from our athletic programs.

Jeff Hathaway

Twenty-five percent of our applicants are pursuing an associate's in nursing. The program is selective and students have to go through a lot to get accepted.

Doug Hennig

CRH is a company that's consistently delivered value. It's got strong management and they've performed well organically and through selective acquisitions.

Michael Joynson

They need to be more selective. Nortel needs to pick a market that they can dominate.

Mark Sue

Buyers now don't have to put money down on the first house they see. They can be more selective.

Glenn Crellin

We realized our potential tonight. We took care of the ball and took selective shots. We did a nice job of moving our feet on defense and contesting shots.

Chuck May

Food processing companies must fully comply with international standards as the global market is becoming more selective in terms of quality requirements.

Thomas Dharmawan

Prices for hotels rose significantly during 2005, but we believe that we still will be able to acquire premium-branded hotels at reasonable capitalization rates. In attractive markets where hotels are selling in excess of replacement costs, we will consider development on a highly selective basis.

Joe Green

The country collectively was dealing with the themes of the play in a very real relevant way. Perhaps most importantly, 'The Glass Menagerie' was one of the plays that lead to the way we understand and accept a kind of selective realism that is most common today.

Stephen Rupsch

I will try to expand it so I take up the whole 60 seconds. I may be selective in my history of humanity.

Alan Charles Kors

If you offer tickets, you can't be selective about who you're selling them to. But you can set limits on the number of tickets that anybody buys. If that applies to everybody, it applies to brokers as well.

Dave Lucas

I know some people don't like that, but they have some tremendous athletes. There were some times when we'd drive and they knocked (the ball) into the stands. You have to be selective with your shots.

Dave Kohnen

We have become too selective, too elitist, too talent-mongering as I like to say, trying to select the athletic wheat from the athletic chaff.

Bob Bigelow

That's not like me. I want to be more selective, instead of giving away some at-bats.

Travis Lee

The current results suggest that such a chemical imbalance in patients taking selective cox-2 inhibitor painkillers may present a cardiovascular hazard--particularly for people already predisposed to high blood pressure.

Thomas Coffman

We're going to be real selective from here on out in terms of the types of kids we bring in. Unfortunately, these were the cards we were dealt.

Rob Flaska

In the first inning we made (Highland) make plays. We were very patient and very selective after that.

Tracy Kirsch

It's been known for about 30 years that there's a selective loss of neurons in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, neurons that produce a neurotransmitter chemical called acetylcholine.

Frank Laferla

We saw some selective buying, as funds reshuffle portfolios and pick technology-related stocks.

Jorge Gonzalez

I felt like our press was working fine, but I felt like we were not composed offensively. All we had to do was step it up on offense and be a little more selective with where we were shooting to make it look the way it should for the amount of effort we were putting in on defense.

Barbara Helms

Growing up in Baltimore, I've always thought of Hopkins as a selective school. The lacrosse championship has definitely added to the appeal.

Laura Gordon

It's a terrific show because its selective of the artists. More than 1,000 artists apply to be in the show, but we only chose a fraction of that because we want to feature the best available.

Nicole Spencer

I would still like to get a guy to be the guy, ... I don't know if that's going to happen. Whoever is in the game, we're going to be a little more selective about making changes if he's moving the team and we're scoring.

Phil Bennett

If you buy selective, high-quality equities in emerging markets, you'll make money over two years.

David Hale

We're giving men yet another easier, faster way to take care of their legal obligation. He'll be hooking directly to the mainframe and when he hits the 'submit' button, he's going to get an instantaneous Selective Service number. He'll be registered as of that moment.

Lew Brodsky

And this led to an observation decades ago -- which was key -- that adult lamprey must be selective in how they pick streams, ... They only pick a few, and if you remove the larvae they don't seem to go in there.

Peter Sorensen

He's got to be more selective in what he swings at. And if we can do something with the lineup and position him in a spot that can help him learn that, then that's what we're going to do. What we're looking at is the major-league level, and (there) he's going to have to be more selective at what he offers at than he is right now.

Bill Geivett

The economic figures, especially those on consumer confidence, turned out weaker than I expected and they're negative for stocks . You need to be cautious and selective with technology stocks.

Nobuyoshi Tsumori

She has gotten used to Division I pitching. She has been really selective at the plate.

Joanne Graf

We had 110 reenlistments while we were in the Persian Gulf and awarded more than $777,000 of selective reenlistment bonuses.

Denise Haynie

Its supporters make only selective reference to the overwhelming scientific evidence that supports evolution.

Royal Society

Officiating is a lot like being married. You tend to have selective hearing after a while. The toughest part to figure out is when to respond. When does (a coach) have a question, or when is he talking to be talking?

Pat Pownall

We know from our scholarship programs that the top community college students are every bit as good as the juniors in these highly selective schools. If you really want to address the issue, you really have to work with community colleges.

Joshua Wyner

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Bill Watterson

Stravinsky said that composition is selective improvisation, meaning that the same kernel of an idea that you have up on the stand as a jazz musician is the same one you write down as a composer.

Chris Brubeck

People will be a lot more selective and pick up only those shares that are highly likely to get a boost from government policy.

Toshihiro Koizumi

Quality is very strong?as strong as I've seen it really. The ones they want bring a premium; the ones they don't want do not. It's very selective.

Craig Bandoroff

It was a long, tedious process for him, and it was probably as challenging a recruiting process for me. As a Division I-AA program, they're allowed to carry a similar number of players as a Division I-A program, but they don't award scholarships. The getting in part is very selective.

Karl Johnson

The selective shopper is increasingly becoming the focus at Wal-Mart.

Stephen Quinn

We don't want a memory that is going to store every bit of every experience. We would be overwhelmed with clutter of useless trivia ... We're probably better off having ... a more selective coding of info.

Daniel Schacter

We're not swinging the bat. I think at times we are too selective and waiting on the perfect pitch.

Jimmy Lawler

While the job market is picking up, many companies remain selective.

Katherine Spencer Lee

He used to get himself out a lot of times. Now, he's hit several home runs on 3-and-0 counts. He's been very selective, swung at very few bad pitches.

Calvin Baisley

This fund does a pretty good job of being selective along the way and not just taking the largest companies out there.

Jeff Tjornehoj

What needs to happen if you're going to tell an evolutionary story is you have to tell a story of gradual change and at each point there has to be some sort of selective advantage. The evidence is just not there that these processes can do the sort of design work that I am pointing to.

William Dembski

We want to make sure that the level of student is high, and I would say we're selective, but not as selective as the undergraduate program (at Hopkins). Not yet, anyway.

Robert Kargon

The attorney general of Massachusetts is selectively choosing which laws to enforce. Gay couples wishing to marry should not be disadvantaged by unfair, selective treatment. Homosexuals must have the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples when it comes to both law and the enforcement of law.

Ashley Mushnick

I think it might be the time to realize some profits on mining stocks, and it's good to be selective at this point.

Beste Alpargun

We believe this property has the potential to achieve significant revenue growth through addressing deferred-maintenance issues, adding selective capital improvements and improving property-management operations.

Jack Cassidy

You have to be selective about regionalism. Our court system seemed a perfectly logical place to start. And I believe it's working very well.

Robert Waters

Growth has not only returned, but re-established itself, ... Any blanket declaration that we're back to the good old days would be wrong [though]. It's a more selective and thoughtful return to demand.

Scott Kriens

We had to be even more selective than last year.

Marco Muller

Low-income kids have been a forgotten constituency in selective colleges.

Thomas Parker

I think the Revolution slate will more resemble the eclectic slate that I put together when I was at Fox and Disney . It's very difficult to justify not trying to do something different in a marketplace that is more and more selective.

Joe Roth

In this environment, as long as the market is not falling apart, there is still money to be made. You have to be very selective, be patient, go slow.

Greg Kuhn

Selective logging negatively impacts many plants and animals and increases erosion and fires. Additionally, up to 25 percent more carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere each year, above that from deforestation, from the decomposition of what the loggers leave behind.

Gregory Asner

The reason that Blaine Rollins, the fund manager, did decide to close the fund is so he could continue to be selective in his stock picking.

Shelly Grice

(Eaton) got behind in the count early, and that allows you to be more selective. When that happens with guys like Helton and (Matt) Holliday and (Garrett) Atkins behind me, I'm going to be more selective about the pitches I put in play.

Cory Sullivan

The bears are screaming that the market is too selective.

Alfred Goldman

We've been very aggressive at the plate until today. That was pretty disappointing. It seemed like we were being too selective, waiting for the perfect pitch.

John Finn

I'll share my perspective with various individuals. I think the league players have something to offer on a selective basis, but it's on that selective basis. They're great athletes in their own right. A case-by-case scenario. Some players would make the transition, some not.

Pat Wilson

We have to be selective now.

Gray Ottley

Offering this type of selective incentive instead of a substantial pay raise for teachers across the board is like trying to put the icing on a cake that has yet to be baked.

Linda Bridges

Any selective pressure on this virus ensures plenty of opportunity for H5N1 to acquire amantadine resistance, which would bring additional difficulties in controlling the pandemic.

Robert Webster

Hitting the ball the other way, and pitch selection. Being more relaxed at the plate and being more selective.

Robert Andino

To secure an entire enterprise, offer guest access, and voice over WLAN, you need pervasive coverage versus selective coverage.

Ben Gibson

We'll have to be more selective in where the phones are. Now instead of 450 phones we'll have only 150 and they'll be for the media, not the suites.

Glenn Menard

The city is optimizing its structure by drawing more foreign funds into the service sector and being more selective in introducing manufacturing projects.

Liu Jinping

Our underlying business experienced distinct improvements, including cash generation, in the current quarter. We continue to be selective with our product mix to maximize our financial results, and we are continuing to capitalize on opportunities that exist in our region, including emerging markets, by offering innovation, differentiation, and speed-to-market advantages to our customers.

Bill Lowe

I think Laura could be more famous if she wanted to be. My impression is she is very selective with what she does.

Scott Derrickson

I was really surprised. I didn't know it was age selective.

John Mutter

Since implementation is always a wild card as China struggles to build nationwide uniformity in the legal system, there will always be concerns about inconsistent or selective application of the law.

James Zimmerman

Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate fears.

Andrew To

In the old days, I used to tour nine months of the year. With travel being so difficult these days, I've become very selective about where we go and how often we play.

Chuck Mangione

It's out there. You can't be quite as selective.

Cathy Arnett

We are disappointed we did not get the outcome we first expected, but we were very selective, and I'm glad we didn't do it on a broader scale.

Mark Booth

Many companies I've worked with find it much too easy to be less selective in their list pulls because it's so cheap. A longer-term approach to this could increase relevance and improve results fairly significantly.

Jeanniey Mullen

While demanding rights for Muslims, the MCB wants to deny rights to lesbian and gay people -- both Muslim and non-Muslim. It sees no double standard or inconsistency in its selective approach to human rights.

Peter Tatchell

Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly in pursuit of the details of their past because it is from that they determine their own identity upon which they can base their strategy of survival.

Will Eisner

I've been more selective with pitches. I've made a couple adjustments. I've fine-tuned (my hitting) more.

Ben Humphrey

This is the most selective year ever.

Keith Todd

As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.

Charles Adams

I don't dash it off. I spend dozens or hundreds of hours to get a result that is very subtle, rich and mysterious. It forces me to be very selective. I think about an image for a year or more sometimes.

Holly Downing

If you're facing the consumer, it's difficult to make money. The stock market is going to be more and more selective.

Mark Tinker

We need to be consistent offensively. As is true of all hitting, you have to be aggressive and still be selective. Last year, either we would go up there hacking or be too selective. Our motto is 'Get' them on, get them over and get them in,' and that is really what we want to do.

Stephen Gussler

People are getting out of telecom equipment and seeking out more defensive areas. Chip and software stocks are seeing some interest but very, very selective buying as the recovery there is fragile.

John Hatherly

I'm very selective about whose guitars I'll see.

John Reynolds

People survive an accident and say, 'God spared us.' Well, what about the other 136 people who died miserably and in flames? It's a selective use of data and is not only not scientific, it's really anti-scientific. It's superstition.

Joe Nickell

This network is real, and partisan diplomacy and selective anti-terrorism warfare will only let loose this Frankenstein.

Rajeev Sharma

They are very selective about what they devote their energy and their resources to. They seem to be wary of spreading themselves too thin.

Steve Roush

Without a doubt this is going to be a have and have-not market. You are going to have to be selective in what you buy.

Todd Campbell

With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.

Gregory Asner

The general feeling is that firms are trying to be more selective about the number of athletes with whom they have relationships. You have to remember that, for the most part, the industry is young and learning how to measure success and get the best return on its investment. The emerging trend is the use of entertainers and retired athletes to market these products.

Paul Swangard

Either the administration has some information that it has not shared with the public, or, yes, they were using the selective use of facts to bolster the decision in a case that had already been made -- a decision that had been made to go to war.

Joseph Wilson

I was just battling the at-bat before. I wasn't being patient or selective. I was a little too aggressive.

Jennie Finch

The market is in a transition stage, from a broad-based advance to a more selective environment. Investors are shifting their focus from earnings to geopolitical factors.

Eugene Peroni

There are rumors that the central bank has injected capital into selective brokerages and let them buy stocks, as current valuations of most blue chips are obviously too low.

Zhang Qi