Quote by Nir Eyal

You'll often find that people's declared preferences - what they say they want - are far different from their revealed preferences - what they…

— Nir Eyal

“THE STUDY OF ONESELF AND OTHERS   The economists have a term called “revealed preferences” – it means that the only way you can…

— Sebastian Marshall

If we don't tell people what we want,they would always give us what they have whether it matches our choices or not.

— Terry Mark

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

— Sheena Iyengar

Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their…

— Willi Smith

People really want different things depending on who they are.

— Miguel McKelvey

“Choice can only happen when preferences aren’t outweighed by need.”

— Jane Davis

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

— Theodor Adorno

“There is often a great difference between what we want and what we think we want, and this is complicated still further by the…

— Ursula Markham

People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.

— Martha Beck

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

— Ogden Nash

“One may have preferences, but why exclusions?”

— Madame du Chatelet