Picked Quotes

“Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand”

“Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.”

“Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ...Dang, last again.”

“I saw this leaf. This leaf was the one I picked out of hundreds. there was many to pick from. There was so many different ones. But I picked this one. This leaf reminds me of you. I picked it out of hundreds just like you. I was lucky to find it just like you. Its unique and beautiful just like you. You're my leaf and I really like you. --just like you”

“If you want to be picked by the opportunity then you have to pick the opportunity first.”

“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn't have, and I could order this environment in the way that I couldn't in my actual life. Then, when I learned to write, I learned that I could do this not only for myself, but for other people. I could create whole things that were believable, at least to myself, at that point. And in this way, I began to wield an authority and a power that I had not had before. In other words, every child goes through this. Some pick football and some pick the library. I picked the library.”

“A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.”

“I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.”

“This thing between them, the force of it, could devour the world. And if they picked it, picked them, it might very well cause the end of it.”