Sheena Iyengar Quotes

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

Most of the time you should use reason, there is no doubt about that because gut often makes us susceptible to lots of different biases, particularly if what you're deciding is something that you really, that expertise can be brought to bear on it, there is a way in which you can align the odds, so then you should really use reason.

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

I just follow my heart.

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.

We make decisions based on what we feel in the moment.

I always follow my heart.

I think more from my heart. My brains don't work as much.

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.

Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.