Definition of Selective

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Definition of Selective
	Selective Selecting; tending to select. Related Definitions: Select, Selecting, Tending, To

Selective Quotations

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan

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

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.
David Lee Roth

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

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

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'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

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.
Norman Jewison

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

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

Selective Translations

selective in German is selektiv, trennscharf
selective in Spanish is selectivo
selective in Swedish is selektiv

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