Time Preference Quotes

#1. In accordance with his high time preference, he may want to be a vagabond, a drifter, a drunkard, a junkie, a daydreamer, or simply a happy go-lucky kind of guy who likes to work as little as possible in order to enjoy each and every day to the fullest.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#2. Why is it that some young folks are almost overly conscientious in their school work, even to neglecting their Church responsibilities, when the spiritual should have priority in the study time of every person if preference must be given? However, there is time for fulfilling every need.

Spencer W. Kimball

#3. For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.

Jeffrey Toobin

#4. I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

Ram Shriram

#5. Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don't, but half the time that's a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we'd love to love and be loved by all.

Alexandra Katehakis

#6. In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

Al Alvarez

#7. Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

Mike Krzyzewski

#8. Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Eric S. Raymond

#9. But there is neither kindness nor cruelty in time, and events happen without consideration for those who have a preference.

David Whiteland

#10. Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.

Lynn Coady

#11. The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

Francis Bacon

#12. The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

David Maraniss

#13. There will come a time when very few will care about other people's sexual preference - or preferences.

Clive Davis

#14. The Strict Father (or "authoritarian") model is supposed to make a child strong and better able to function socially. It is supposed to make children into effective leaders. But, in fact, it has the opposite effect.

George Lakoff

#15. What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#16. When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches.

Tony Evans

#17. Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. - Darwi Odrade

Frank Herbert

#18. It is hard to create community when the sheer number of options generate a system in which no one is in the same place at the same time.

Rebekah Nathan

#19. There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Edith Wharton

#20. In the end, this sort of ban can only be accomplished in one way, and that's if gun advocates get behind it.

Stephen King

#21. The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

Evelyn Glennie

#22. When I was a model, they called me 'Tyra;' now it's 'Ms. Banks.'

Tyra Banks