"Everyone picks the best one when given a choice."
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"No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us."
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"Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing."
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"If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?"
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"You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art."
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"I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more."
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"So most of the time when we are confronted by more, rather than a few, choices we're often novices and so we don't really know how to differentiate these various options."
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"Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned."
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"When I do have choice I try to be very picky about... or shall I say choosey about when I choose. I don't automatically decide that I must be the one to choose or that it's important for me to make every choice in my life."
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"You know, or three kinds of ice cream bars and you'd see this and like this... okay they could clearly benefit from some more choices and I remember having these discussions with the Japanese because they you know they often like to go to Hawaii for vacation because it was definitely much cheaper for them and I would ask them, "So when you go to Hawaii, you know do eat all these other things?""
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"We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously made.After all, it feels better to justify our opinions rather than challenge them, to contemplate only the pros and relegate the cons to the back of our minds. However, if we want to make the most of choice, we have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable. The question is, if we are willing, how exactly do we go about fortifying ourselves against these biases?"
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"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 choices, we may not buy anything."
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"I do think that there are cultural differences in the extent to which we value having more and more choice."
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"Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant."
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"People don't put as much of an emphasis in expanding their choices, so that, you know, one of the things that I learned when I was in Japan way back in the 1990's and there were all these quarrels happening between the U.S. and Japan about allowing more American products into the Japanese market."
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"Are you going to be able to shave your legs? Are you going to be able to get married? So it was constantly thinking about both choice in terms of possibilities - I mean because choice is the thing that is supposed to enable you to be whatever it is you want to be - and yet, at the same time you have to think about choice in terms of its limitations."
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"We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice."
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"When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers."
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"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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"We make choices and are in turn made by them."
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