Sheena Iyengar Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• 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 first perceive that control is possible.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mean, Exercise, Order

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

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  Choices, World, Interpretation

• 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. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Uplifting, Meaningful, Responsibility

• 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 to practice in a world of so much choice.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Commitment, Order, Practice

• It's always a thrilling experience to go into a place that offers you a lot of choice. You know it's like it reminds you of when you're a kid and you go to the amusement park and whether it be Disneyworld or Six Flags you know that thrilling moment when you first enter and you know you've got all these possibilities for the day and it's really a... it's a wonderful feeling.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Kids, Choices, Feelings

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• 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 individuality, but a way to create community and harmony by deferring to the choices of people whom they trusted and respected.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The art of choosing". TED conference, www.ted.com. July, 2010.

• [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 are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The art of choosing". TED conference, www.ted.com. July, 2010.

• 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 level of job control, indicating that the spike during work hours was specifically caused by lack of choice on the job. People with little control over their work also experienced more back pain, missed more days of work due to illness in general, and had higher rates of mental illness-the human equivalent of stereotypies, resulting in the decreased quality of life common to animals reared in captivity.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Jobs, Pain, Home

• 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 man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. —Archibald MacLeish

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  Freedom, Men, Choices

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

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  Choices, Evolution, Results

  Sheena Iyengar (2010). “The Art Of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday of our Lives, What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them”, p.95, Hachette UK

• What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

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  Choices, Confusing, Clear

• Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

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  Choices, Tools, Want

• I think of choosing as a... both a fun and an effortful activity and I think of choice as something that in order for you to really get what you want out of it you have to put a lot into it and so I'm only willing to do that for a few different things and for the rest I really just try to either satisfy, come up with a simple rule or let somebody else make the choice.

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  Fun, Simple, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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

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  Choices, Wells

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I mean it wasn't that they sat around thinking oh gosh I needed more choices in my grocery stores the way I had come to think about it as an American growing up.

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  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• Now if you expand their choice set. Say you give them 20 different speed dates, everything goes out the window. Everybody starts choosing in accordance with looks because that becomes the easiest criteria by which to weed out all the options and decide "So who am I going to say yes to?"

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  Weed, Giving, Choices

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• We make choices and are in turn made by them.

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  Choices, Made, Turns

  Sheena Iyengar (2010). “The Art Of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday of our Lives, What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them”, p.216, Hachette UK

• I think I was always informally thinking about choice from when I was a very young child because I was born to Sikh immigrant parents, so I was constantly going back and forth between a Sikh household and an American outside world, so I was going back and forth between a very traditional Sikh home in which you had to follow the Five K's.

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  Children, Home, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• You know, like, none of us would choose - no matter where we are in the world - would choose to you know become a member of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" world, but how much choice is really the question.

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  Choices, Nineteen, World

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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

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  Thinking, Differences, Choices

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Keys

  "How to make choosing easier". TED conference, www.ted.com. November, 2011.

• When people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are more likely to make a choice, are more confident in their decisions, and are happier with what they choose.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Numbers, People, Choices

• The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we're forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mean, Difficult Choices, People

  "The Art Of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday of our Lives, What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them". Book by Sheena Iyengar, March 2010.

• Then, the other thing that affected my interest in choices growing up was the fact that I was going blind and that meant that there were lots of questions that constantly kept arising about how much choices I actually could have.

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  Growing Up, Choices, Facts

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• This is at a time when you know most of us drank tap water, so I used to go to this store and examine all the varieties and we used to marvel at all the choices out there, but I found that I rarely bought anything and I kind of thought that was kind of curious. I mean, they had things that the other grocery stores didn't have and yet I never bought anything.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mean, Water, Choices

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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