Selective Action Quotes

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Antibiotics vary greatly in their chemical nature, mode of action upon different organisms, and effect upon the animal body. The selective action of antibiotics upon bacteria and other microorganisms is known as the antibiotic spectrum. Some antibiotics are characterized by a very narrow spectrum, whereas others possess a wide range of activity.

I'll hit them when it matters.

You know, you pick and choose your battles.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do... I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up... I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel."

I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.

You have to pick your places to "step up" and you have you pick your spots. If you're just going to run out there, and, just be what/who you want to be, then you won't be that long.

I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.

Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.

Joke stealing is a big deal to me, but I mean, I'm not going to investigate it if it doesn't effect me directly.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

We all think that the answer to everything is to add more and to do more and to try more. Sometimes you have to have the discipline to say no and to believe in the process that you have established.

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.