Michael Kelly

I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, 'Wow, this is something I really enjoy.' I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it.

American Actor

Matt Gonzalez

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

American Politician

Joe Buck

People would ask, 'Why is your vocal cord paralyzed?' I said it was a virus. I didn't say it was an elective procedure to add hair to the front of my head. It was embarrassing. There's an embarrassing element to that.

American Celebrity

Rick Renzi

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

Salman Rushdie

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

Indian Novelist

Hubert H. Humphrey

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Sandra Bernhard

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

American Actress

Ezra Stiles

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

American Clergyman

John Gavin

I'm not going back to acting, and I'm not going to seek elective office.

Condoleezza Rice

I don't see myself in any way in elective office.

American Statesman

Elective courses offer freedom to explore topics beyond core curriculum requirements.

Academic Flexibility

Use electives to balance your workload; pick less demanding classes if needed.

Balancing Schedule

Electives can introduce students to subjects they wouldn't normally encounter.

Broaden Horizons

Elective subjects should reflect your interests or career aspirations.

Personal Interest

Electives allow students to learn from different departments and faculties.

Diversity in Learning

Elective surgeries are chosen by the patient and often improve quality of life.

Personal Choice

Elective surgeries are typically planned and scheduled in advance.

Planned Timing

These medical procedures aren't for sudden illness but for long-term benefit.

Non-Emergency

 them there's now a ban on catching them and even landing them and landing ones at the court accidentally they're not protected in Ireland in fact they have no elective status in Ireland whatsoever despite our importance for the species and also the historical context with which basking sharks reside

How do you save a shark...

 part of my elective in my anesthesia intensive care program I expect three months at the Heart Institute there has been no doubt around my colleagues about the utility of the training I received here and I think there's been an increased interest now

Making high quality...

 And so, as we're embracing that humility of uncertainty, we should be asking each other, all of us, a question. Our debate moderators, our news anchors should be asking it of our elective representatives and candidates for office, too.

How to disagree...

 just incredible tell me about certain okay so you sort of go beyond the sort of the casual experimentation and you move into this job with a wire service how did you get that i took an elective and this is in manila right this is in