Quotes About Preference

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

what they want for dinner or spot another person in the

It is the customer who determines what a business is.

in the matter of choosing mates, males are usually after quantity and females after quality.

To distinguish between the curved and the straight. —Horace (ca. 30 B.C.)

Carney was hatless and gloveless, wearing her pink linen. Sam looked at her more than once. "its just because he likes pink," she told herself.

There are reasons for everything, even if we don't know them, Stevie said. Motive. Okay, Nate said. My motive is that I prefer dragons. To what? To the absence of dragons.

You want to go back to my house the long way? he asked. Or the shortcut? You have to be cold- Long way, I replied. The long way, for sure.

The best part, without any question, was the tie. I've always liked ties, but it seemed like too much of a Statement to wear them.

We were guilty of the great transgression of preference!

she dismissed it with the thought that there were many kinds of work which were offensive, yet necessary, such as cleaning sewers; somebody had to do it, and Jim seemed to like it.

all claim to an individual taste is bad taste

although Michelle's tastes and mine often diverged: She preferred rom-coms, while according to her, my favorite movies usually involved "terrible things happening to people, and then they die.

Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their number-one friend.

Any sport that's not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they've invented flavors.

Obviously other ones did exist such as basketball, but not in Lee County. Any sport that's not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they've invented flavors.

My name is Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all.

Freedom to choose has what might be called expressive value. Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about.

Apparently we always think we want choice, but when we actually get it, we may not like it. Meanwhile, the need to chose in ever more aspects of life causes us more distress than we realize.

The discrepancy between logic and memory suggests that we don't always know what we want.

Gawande reports that research has shown that patients commonly prefer to have others make their decisions for them. Though as many as 65 percent of people surveyed say that if they were to get cancer, they would want to choose their own treatment, in fact, among people who do get

Gawande reports that research has shown that patients commonly prefer to have others make their decisions for them. Though as many as 65 percent of people surveyed say that if they were to get cancer, they would want to choose their own treatment, in fact, among people who do get cancer, only 12 percent actually want to do so.

WE'VE SEEN THAT AS THE NUMBER OF OPTIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION goes up and the attractive features associated with the rejected alternatives accumulate, the satisfaction derived from the chosen alternative will go down.