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Choice Quotes by Sheena Iyengar

52 Choice quotes by Sheena Iyengar

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When people receive a moderate number of options, they feel more confident and make better choices. Iyengar shows that animals and humans share a drive for control through choice, yet too many options can overwhelm and stall decisions. He also notes how cultural background shapes how we approach choice.

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We make choices and are in turn made by them.

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We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.

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The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.

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The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.

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Well certainly not having any choice - having your entire life dictated by others.

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Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to…

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“how much choice the animals technically had was far less important than how much choice they felt they had”

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In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to…

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There is a different attitude about, you know, how much differentiation there needs to be between our options and how many choices…

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When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice.

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When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to…

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A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser’s dream.

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We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility…

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When I do have choice I try to be very picky about... or shall I say choosey about when I choose. I…

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There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me…

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“when people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are…

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“Like the swimming rats in Richter’s experiment, we can survive for only so long without solid ground beneath our feet; if the…

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Are you going to be able to shave your legs? Are you going to be able to get married? So it was…

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“The challenges we face when it comes to identity and choice exist precisely because choosing is not only a private activity but…

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Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial…

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“When the options are few, we can be happy with what we choose since we are confident that it is the best…

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“We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously…

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“Life is perpetually testing us not only by administering these "thousand natural shocks" but by making us choose among them. Rarely is…

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I think of choosing as a... both a fun and an effortful activity and I think of choice as something that in…

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“At its best, choice is a means by which we can resist the people and the systems that seek to exert control…

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“Why is choice powerful, and where does its power come from? Do we all choose in the same way? What is the…

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“Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our…

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“For animals, the confinement of the body is the confinement of the whole being, but a person can choose freedom even when…

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“The ability to choose well seems to depend in no small part upon our knowing our own minds. And when we ask…

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“True choice requires that a person have the ability to choose an option and not be prevented from choosing it by any…

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Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is…

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When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.

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“valuing the condition of having options over the quality of the options can sometimes lead to decisions that don’t serve us well.”

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You know give me choices that are truly different from one another, otherwise they don't regard them as meaningful choices.

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I do think that there are cultural differences in the extent to which we value having more and more choice.

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So most of the time when we are confronted by more, rather than a few, choices we're often novices and so we…

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If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off…

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“Your enjoyment of the chosen options will be diminished by your regret over what you had to give up. In fact, the…

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If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with…

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Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item.

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The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.

I used to go to this store called Draeger's and you had a little bit of that same feeling because this was a store…

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?" It doesn't tell me how I feel about it tomorrow or even…

I put out a good 10 different types of drinks for them and they just said, "Oh, okay, so it's just one choice." One…

Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.

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People Quotes 28
Knows Quotes 23
Ifs Quotes 19
Choosing Quotes 17
Different Quotes 16
Mean Quotes 14
Want Quotes 13
Thinking Quotes 13
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