Sophie Okonedo

I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself.

British Actress

Rutger Bregman

We know from scientific studies that infants as young as six months old can distinguish right from wrong and have a preference for the good over the bad. I think it's important to design our education and our schools around that insight, to bring out the best in our kids.

Dutch Historian

Tim Berners-Lee

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

English Inventor

Richard Hayne

While stores continue to be a very important part of our business, there is no mistaking the fact that the customers' shopping preference, measured by both traffic and sales, continues to move to a virtual experience.

American Businessman

Jenny Slate

That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.

American Actress

Kristin Armstrong

If your husband asks what you think, tell him. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.

American Athlete

Janet McTeer

I've always thought it's the qualities of a person that matter. Not their breed, their shape, their color, their sexual preference, age... It's the qualities of their character.

English Actress

Nina Jacobson

We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and gender as well as to a character's sexual preference.

American Businesswoman

Princess Nokia

I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of my own.

American Musician

Christian Bale

I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.

Welsh Actor

Indicates a strong personal feeling towards a choice; may not be based on logic.

Emotional Choice

Expressing a preference doesn't mean you dislike the other options, just that you favor one more.

Not Always Negative

Preferences can often reflect cultural background and experiences.

Cultural Influences

In legal and formal contexts, indicates having the first right to choose or benefit.

First Choice Rights

Used when someone has a legal entitlement to prioritize their choice before others.

Legal Entitlement

When used in law, preference should not be based on discrimination.

Non-Discriminatory

Shows which option is more desirable when faced with a decision.

Prioritizing Options

Useful for politely stating what you would like without making demands.

Expressing Wishes

 is that we actually don't know our preferences that well. And because we don't know our preferences that well, we're susceptible to all of these influences from the external the defaults, the particular options that are presented to us, and so on. One more example of this. People believe that when we deal with physical attraction,

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 then it compares your choices and preferences to other people's in simple, mathematical ways. This, the ability to take real-world phenomena and make them something a microchip can understand, is, I think, the most important skill anyone can have these days. Like you use sentences to tell a story to a person,

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 Generalist pollinators have to adapt their preferences depending on who's flowering when. So from one flowering season to the next, the participants and patterns of matchmaking can drastically change. With all those variables, you can understand the importance of generalist pollinators,

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 focused on the nature of people's preferences and thoughts. It couldn't tell marketers what percentage of people buy a certain product or brand, but it could tell them more about the people who do, their reasoning for doing so, and even the unconscious motivations behind those reasons.

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 Two other times, I show up and help my team with the preparation and cleanup. And all those other nights, I just show up. I have dinner, talk with my neighbors, and I go home, having been fed a delicious meal by someone who cares about my vegetarian preferences.

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 Through the mid-20th century, members of the community would, if possible, make their funerary preferences known in advance, sometimes requesting that family members gather to consume the body after death. Tragically, though these rituals honored the deceased,

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 now there are four possible results. You can tell the people who flip heads twice in a row to report support for the troll; those who get tails twice in a row to report dragon; and those with any other combination to declare their true preference.

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 But in recovery, they showed a strong preference for sleep across both hemispheres, suggesting that it was more restorative for them. Dolphins, on the other hand, have been observed to maintain high levels of alertness for at least five days.

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 largest spiders in the world sometimes reaching a foot in diameter with a fearsome appearance and a painful bite to match roughly eight hundred tarantula species live around the globe their preference for warm climates makes

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 algorithms that are learning our preferences to customize our experiences in fact at home we have choice and so we choose to do business with companies that have really figured out how to personalize their news shopping