John Kennedy

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.

American Lawyer

Jemele Hill

Perspective should never influence punishment. Too often in our society, we practice selective perspective. We're willing to see all the angles only when it suits us. When perspective becomes inconvenient, we can be unflinching, even cruel.

American Journalist

Greg Olsen

Typically in training camp, especially as I've gotten older, we were always very selective with the plays. If it was a pass or a look I needed to get in the run game or pass protection, I was always in there to get it.

American Football Player

Haris Pasovic

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.

Bosniak Director

Kirk Cameron

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.

American Actor

Wole Soyinka

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Nigerian Dramatist

Jonathan Groff

I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.

Charlie Kirk

When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie.

American Activist

Rubina Dilaik

I have always been selective about people who enter my life.

Indian Actress

George C. Wolfe

AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.

American Playwright

Use 'selective' to show thoughtful decision-making, emphasizing quality over quantity.

Nuanced Choices

'Selective' implies control or authority over choices, suggesting expertise or high standards.

Authority Implication

'Selective' often carries a positive connotation, admiring the person's ability to choose well.

Positive Connotation

'Selective' in education often relates to exclusivity and high standards for entry.

Exclusivity

Being associated with 'selective' educational institutions often carries a sense of prestige.

Perceived Prestige

Some may view 'selective' negatively, as it can imply limitation and lack of accessibility.

Potential Negativity

'Selective' in psychology refers to focusing attentively on certain details while ignoring others.

Mental Focus

Selective behaviors like attention can occur subconsciously, without active thinking.

Subconscious Action

In chemistry, 'selective' implies precise targeting of substances with no room for error.

Technical Precision

Use 'selective' to discuss specificity in scientific experiments or processes.

Scientific Context

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 could and should be controlled in humans through selective breeding. There were many problems with this line of thinking, among them the idea that intelligence was not only fixed and inherited, but also linked to a person’s race. Under the influence of eugenics,

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 of selective breeding and early agricultural techniques. For the first time, people could raise food rather than search for it, and this led to the development of semi-permanent villages for the first time in history. "Why only semi-permanent?" you might ask.

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 And your hand, just like so much of our body, is a hotbed of bacterial activity, making it an ideal hunting ground for phages. Because after all, phages hunt bacteria. It's also important to know that phages are extremely selective hunters.

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 This allows us to create a user-controlled portable identity. More than a profile, it means you can selectively reveal the different attributes about you that help facilitate trade or interaction,

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