Preference Quotes - Page 5

• Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

  Max Levchin

  Team, Cutting, Etc

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• 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

  People, Different, Want

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.40, Penguin Canada

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• One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

  Ken Wilber

  Individual, Goodness, Sanctions

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.

  Tommy Lee

  Sorry, Thinking, Records

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• The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.

  Richard Pascale

  Inspirational, Educational, Real

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• A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

  William Osler

  Mind, Library, Weakness

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• I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support and make-up tips.

  Jessicka

  Queens, Gay, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of casting in Hollywood, but make it happen before one of them is out of their prime. Can you imagine those two men together making love? If there's a man in here that's junk doesn't wiggle just a little bit at the thought of those two men together - this has nothing to do with your homophobic sexual preference. At that level it's art, you monkey. You should be honored that you share the same restroom with those Greek gods.

  Daniel Tosh

  Art, Sex, Men

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• I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to the reading market. It helps me stay a pastor first, because they have no agenda; they are not thinking: "This would this be a good book someday." They're thinking: "How this will help Bob and Suzy who are going through a tough marriage? What series can encourage them?" And so I really bow to their preference.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.

  Louise Wilder

  Sweet, Nature, Power

  Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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• 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

  Real, Real You, Altars

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• How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Men, Looks

  Isaac Asimov (1952). “Triangle: The currents of space; Pebble in the sky; The stars, like dust”

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• My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Done, Legislation

  "Obama Warns Trump Against Relying On Executive Power". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 19, 2016.

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• Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

  Epictetus

  God, Thinking, Eating

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• I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

  Sylvia Plath

  Years, Fifty, Poet

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

  Albert Ellis

  People, Belief, Irrational

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• If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

  Thomas Merton

  Glasses, Color, Consciousness

  Thomas Merton, William H. Shannon (2010). “Thomas Merton's Paradise Journey: Writings on Contemplation”, p.222, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

  Dennis Green

  Thinking, Taste, Slavery

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• Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but they back them with all the passion of sportsmen. In a vague subconscious way they know it is a game, but they happen to enjoy playing the game.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Party, Passion, Political Opinions

  Hilaire Belloc (2008). “The Party System”, p.37, IHS Press

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• The Russians sought to interfere with the election process - that the cyber hacking that took place by the Russians was part of that campaign, and that they had a clear preference in terms of outcomes.

  Barack Obama

  Election Process, Outcomes, Hacking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

  C. S. Lewis

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Men

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• The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

  Susan Sontag

  Taste, Cameras, Experts

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.93, Macmillan

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• I keep wanting people to realize that there needs to be a tidal wave of peace and love. People should be treated with love and respect regardless of the color of their skin or their sexual preference. We need to keep saying that as much as we can and as loud as we can.

  Jim James

  Color, People, Skins

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

  Sengcan

  Way, Difficult, Zen Proverb

  Sengcan (1974). “Hsin Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith Mind”, p.7, Eric Putkonen

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• No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Men, Judging

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