Top 100 Quotes About Preferences
#1. Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'
Rose Tremain
#2. To have preferences, but not exclusions.
Voltaire
#3. They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.
James G. March
#4. Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else.
Rick Warren
#5. My preferences range from the gutter-like to the idyllically sublime, ideally with you roaming the range beside me...
Virginia Alison
#6. There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.
Pauline Kael
#7. Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no exception to this rule ... It is not the legitimate business of government in America to promote 'diversity.'
Ward Connerly
#8. God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.
Dolly Parton
#9. We all have our particular preferences. Mine is gentle sex, the kind in which a man takes forever before he touches you down there. But most people are so guilty about sex that they want the crime and the punishment built in.
Erica Jong
#10. The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear.
Sengcan
#11. Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.
John De Ruiter
#12. Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
James Lankford
#13. It is somewhat ironic to have us so deeply disturbed over a program where race is an element of consciousness, and yet to be aware of the fact, as we are, that institutions of higher learning ... have been given conceded preferences to the children of alumni.
Harry A. Blackmun
#14. Now the whole fucking world is different."
"It's about to get worse," Steve said.
"Then I'll call for food," Vincent said. "Mirren, this might be our last meal. Any preferences?
Erin Kellison
#15. I don't think your God has ever advised you otherwise. You hear only what you want. He only ever commands your preferences.
Philippa Gregory
#16. God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.
Sathya Sai Baba
#17. In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.
Monty Don
#18. Should we play Twenty Questions?"
"How would that work in this situation?"
"I could try to guess your preferences."
"My preferences in a kiss?"
I nodded, our faces still very close together.
"My preference is simple - you.
Kasie West
#19. Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
Alfred North Whitehead
#20. Members of the dying churches really didn't want growth unless that growth met their preferences and allowed them to remain comfortable.
Thom S. Rainer
#21. When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges.
Danielle LaPorte
#23. The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.
Nick Hanauer
#24. I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.
John Cornyn
#25. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#26. You'll often find that people's declared preferences - what they say they want - are far different from their revealed preferences - what they actually do.
Nir Eyal
#27. I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.
Susan Orlean
#28. Virtually any appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talk to each other and to the power-generation system. Our appliances will pay attention to our preferences.
Vint Cerf
#29. The idiosyncrasies of human preferences seem to reflect a competition between the impetuous limbic grasshopper and the provident prefrontal ant within each of us.
Walter Mischel
#30. Joining the corporate worship of the body of Christ requires that we allow something else - the good of the body - to supercede our personal preferences.
Michael Walters
#31. Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.
Criss Jami
#32. I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible.
Christopher Hitchens
#33. When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.
Dean Koontz
#34. We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.
Andrew Cohen
#35. No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment and years of racial preferences black students are worse off than ever.
Wesley Pruden
#36. If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.
Jill Lepore
#37. My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.
Matthew McConaughey
#38. We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
Timothy Keller
#39. She wanted to know all about me, what I was like, who I was. I worried, there wasn't really much to tell. I had no preferences. I ate anything, wore anything, sat where you told me, slept where you said. I was infinitely adaptable.
Janet Fitch
#40. In a paper called 'The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives,' I showed that there were not any mechanisms that would always both produce a stable matching and make it completely safe for all firms and workers to reveal their true preferences.
Alvin E. Roth
#41. beliefs create or constrain possibilities, desires lead to preferences among them, and intentions represent commitments to specific courses of action. Each of the primitive elements can evolve in time, which is why mental models have momentum.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#42. at the end of the market for spouses, men and women do not necessarily marry the type of person their initial preferences dictate: they marry the person who is both available and willing to be married to them.
Marina Adshade
#44. No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
Patti Smith
#45. When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.
John Twelve Hawks
#46. For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey
#47. This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation.
Hortense Odlum
#48. Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:
Ken Keyes Jr.
#49. Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).
Stephen Jay Gould
#50. Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
Nick Hanauer
#51. The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan
#52. Without judgments life loses its hierarchical quality of being a choice between preferences and by losing that, it loses it's savor.
Auliq Ice
#53. As companies compete to embrace customer preferences through finer segmentation, they often risk creating too-small target markets.
W.Chan Kim
#54. She had never inadvertently hit on a straight woman, or misidentified a lesbian in her life. Of course she usually also only dated on Goodreads, where most people had social media identify their gender preferences. However,
Aaron Frale
#55. We really become one - we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor - freedom, expression, acceptance, love.
Jewel
#56. Lenders make their choices with clear preferences: "Africans first, women first, and agriculture first" (Flannery,
Anke Schwittay
#57. Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience.
Ravi Zacharias
#58. We want a culture of the people, by the people, and for the people, not defined by white European traditions, male preferences, or any other form of group identity.
R. R. Reno
#59. And yet in only a few hours we've managed to erase her almost entirely. All of her things - bought, received, painstakingly selected; her tastes and preferences; all the random stuff accumulated over the years - all of it sorted, trashed, or packed up in less than a day. How easily we get erased.
Lauren Oliver
#60. I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
Andrea Bocelli
#61. rather amazingly, an IAT developed for monkeys shows that they, too, exhibit implicit preferences for in-group members, associating good things like fruit with in-group members and bad things like spiders with out-group members.
Joshua Greene
#62. Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#63. Instead, take everything as it comes Accept your preferences, but do not insist on them Take other's views as their right, as you have yours Resist nothing- accept everything Stay here no matter what, and you achieve peace And allow it to others
Matthew S. Barnes
#64. In addition to billions in new 'stimulus' spending that our country can't afford, the Geithner plan also contains billions in tax increases on small and family-owned businesses while protecting the tax preferences of wealthy, multinational corporations.
Kevin McCarthy
#65. To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.
Bruce Lee
#66. The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.
George P. Shultz
#67. But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.
Carre Otis
#68. Totally contrary to my genetic makeup, contrary to my usual behavior and preferences, contrary to all logic, I fell madly in love with Italy, its people and its chaos.
Nancy Yuktonis Solak
#69. The truth is, we are part of something greater than our own personal preferences or felt needs. We are part of a worldwide family of believers who belong to each other with a history and a heritage defined by a loving heavenly Father.
Ross Parsley
#70. As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#71. Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?
David Pearce
#73. Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
George Will
#74. How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provided at the right level, taking into account citizens' preferences?
Eric Maskin
#75. His cock is big, his sexual preferences are exotic, and he gets off making me do things I'd rather not.
J.A. Huss
#76. For one thing, it helps us see the logical consistency of Human preferences for what it is - a hopeless mirage
Daniel Kahneman
#77. They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#78. [after guard dogs frozen mid-attack] 'How long are the dogs going to stay hanging there like that?' ask Yulia. 'I want to make friends with them. Otherwise, i'll be left with a latent psychological complex that's bound to affect my personality and sexual preferences.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#79. All of your desires, wants, or preferences emanate from you naturally and constantly, for you stand at the Leading Edge of a Universe that makes that so.
Esther Hicks
#80. Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences - all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
Albert Camus
#81. One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.
Ken Wilber
#82. My own preferences had little bearing on the outcome of events.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#83. Recipes are how we learn all the rules, and cooking is knowing how to break them to suit our tastes or preferences.
Shauna Niequist
#84. Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.
Michael Sandel
#85. One of the first effects of this hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information from the context required to understand it. On the Internet, facts float about freely and are recombined more according to the preferences of intuition than the rules of cognition:
Seth Mnookin
#86. Allan Bloom, in his book The Closing oftheAmerican Mind, chronicled the epidemic rise of moral relativism that reduces ethics to personal preferences rather than to objective norms for what is right and wrong.
R.C. Sproul
#87. I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.
Kathryn Minshew
#88. The way is light and fluid for the man with
no preferences.
Laozi
#89. If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.
Ed Stetzer
#90. Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.
Piers Anthony
#91. In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.
Hank Stuever
#92. These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#93. My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.
Elizabeth Holmes
#94. If the gospel is reduced because of our preferences or misunderstandings, we leave ourselves open to heresies and to attacking our brothers-in-arms.
Matt Chandler
#95. Two and two do make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#96. The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
David Mamet
#97. Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.
Ryan Holmes
#98. Sexual preferences develop, evolve and change over a lifetime. [ ... ] Without opportunities for sexual exploration and discovery, how is a 19 to 20-year-old to learn what he or she likes and how his or her body reacts?
Darrel Ray
#99. I will play with anyone for my country. I may have my personal preferences, but such preferences have never come in the way of playing for India.
Sania Mirza
#100. There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.
George Muller
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