Sheena Iyengar Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• 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.

• 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.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Children, Home, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• You get to decide how you're going to look and what you're going to be when you grow up and when people learned that my parents actually had an arranged marriage people thought that was the most horrific thing on earth. I mean how could anybody allow their marriage of all things to be prescribed by somebody else?

  Sheena Iyengar

  Growing Up, Mean, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I went home and they seemed... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of some Nazi camp or something.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Home, Parent, Normal

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mom, Children, Dad

• 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.

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