If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i. e. more and more choice, we're … - Sheena Iyengar

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It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary biologists, because they are the ones who invented the idea of competition. It comes from the field of evolution.

Sheena Iyengar

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i. e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.

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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.

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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.

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

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What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.

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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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