Quotes About Preferences

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.

Too bad guys aren't like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards. - Maggie

I've never been a big movie person, but I used to watch movies regularly in my life, and sometime in the '90s I just stopped. I certainly never was an educated moviegover.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I do think all things in moderation. I mean, the thing to me - it actually doesn't bother me very much if people want to read chick lit. But it makes me, you know, sort of disheartened when that's all that people want to read.

You may prefer apples to oranges, oranges to pears, but pears to apples—it depends on how the choices are presented to you. The

When people get rich, they shed their skin-in-the-game-driven experiential mechanism. They lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences for their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery.

Alberto andava dietro alle sartine; andava dietro, però, anche alle ragazze di buona famiglia. Andava dietro a tutte le ragazze, gli piacevano tutte; e siccome era allegro e gentile, corteggiava, per allegria e gentilezza, anche quelle che non gli piacevano.

No me gustan los niños. -Tampoco te gustan mucho los adultos. Ni nadie que esté entre unos y otros.

Netflix changed the economics of offering niches and, in doing so, reshaped our understanding about what people actually want to watch.

Sin embargo, ofrecer simplemente más variedad no cambia la demanda. Hay que ayudar a los consumidores a encontrar los nichos que se adaptan a sus necesidades e intereses particulares.

Una vez que se ha expandido la variedad y se aplican los filtros para navegar por ella, la curva de la demanda se aplana.

If a guy looks in the mirror more than I do it's a bad sign. I like scruffy, but not smelly.

I don't love mixed drinks.

My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

I've had to focus on the fact that a lot more people don't want to work out in the confines of a gym anymore.

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Lo admirable de los mercados es que logran conciliar las preferencias de una multitud de individuos distintos. WILLIAM EASTERLY

Holmes's experience in the war taught him not that all people have a right to freedom, but rather that claims about right and wrong are really only illusions.67 Ethical principles, he believed, are subjective, emotional commitments that cannot be judged right or wrong. Ideas such as justice or moral good are only the expressions of arbitrary personal preferences and are no more rational than a person's preference for one kind of beer over

What we call laws or rights are just arbitrary preferences enforced by violence, in just the same way that "a dog will fight for his bone."69 A constitution is simply an effort to render that process less violent by subjecting the inevitable clashes to majority vote instead of battle. But in the end, politics is just war by other means.

They settled into the long learning of one another: preferences, habits altered, others acquired; disagreement without bile; trust and that wordless conversation that years of companionship rest on.

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.