“With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.” Quote by Kevin Bacon
“I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?” PeopleKnowsMeanSimplePeasants Author:James Earl Jones
“Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.” PeoplePlansRetirementFewer Author:Sheena Iyengar
“People will make worse financial decisions for them if they're choosing from a lot of options than if they're choosing from a few options. If they have more options they're more likely to avoid stocks and put all their money in money market accounts, which doesn't even grow at the rate of inflation.” PeopleIfsGrowsDecisionAccountsRateFinancialInflation Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Also if they choose from more options than fewer options they're less satisfied with what they choose and that is true whether they're choosing chocolates or which job offer to accept.” IfsJobsAcceptingOffersSatisfiedChocolateFewer Author:Sheena Iyengar
“What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.” WayUseDesireChoicesBornAbilityAnimalOur LivesShareFacilitateDesire To Live Author:Sheena Iyengar
“You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans - before we can speak or we can understand a baby's cognition - they're already showing us signs that they want choice.” KnowsWantHumansChoicesSpeakAnimalBabyCognition Author:Sheena Iyengar
“You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if you give them a music mobile which turns on automatically versus a music mobile in which - if by chance their little legs or their little hands accidentally touches it - turns on they're so much more excited if by chance it turns on because they touched it, so that desire for control over their environment is... really appears from very early on and if you look at children's first words, "no, yes."” IfsKnowsGivingFirstsLooksChildrenLittlesHandsDesireTurnsChanceEnvironmentExcitedLegsTouchedVersusInfantMobileTurn-onLittle Hands Author:Sheena Iyengar
“My child's first word was "more," but and it's all about, "I want." "I'm going to tell you what I want and what I don't want." It's about my desire to express my preferences. And that is really innate.” WantFirstsChildrenDesireMy ChildrenPreferenceInnate Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned.” PeopleChoicesTeach Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Well certainly not having any choice - having your entire life dictated by others.” WellsChoices Author:Sheena Iyengar