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Choices Quotes by Sheena Iyengar
- When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must…
- We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.
- In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things…
- The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.
- In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between…
- The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.
- The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.
- First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their…
- [Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs…
- The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to the…
- Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening.…
- What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a…
- We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.
- There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example…
- Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many…
More Choices Quotes
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius
- I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every… — John Avlon