12 Sheena Iyengar Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sheena Iyengar

American Educator

Born: Nov 29, 1969

Choice Choosing Home Me People You

Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Michael Pollan Michael Porter Temple Grandin Timothy Leary

As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go. Sheena Iyengar

Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves. Sheena Iyengar

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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 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

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

Art Appreciating Possibilities Hopes Balancing Limitations Choosing Assessment Desires

When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you're trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh? Sheena Iyengar

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I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that's what I struggle against. Sheena Iyengar

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing. Sheena Iyengar

Our Seeing Born Know How Taste Really Choose Desire

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

Me Made Young Background Tensions Very Choice Aware

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

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

Try Guess Consumers Make Essentially Want Choice Companies

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible. Sheena Iyengar

Good Knowledge Possible Ideas Want Public Much Public Good Should Exposure

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