Rhys Darby Quotes

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.

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.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all.

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

Sometimes people don't want to be empowered because they are afraid of being the person to make the decisions.

It does happen sometimes that you aren't able to understand whether you should go for a particular film or not, and you are left with only one or two choices.

It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!

The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating.

We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

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.

What we found was that of the people who stopped when there were 24 different flavors of jam out on display only 3% of them actually bought a jar of jam whereas of the people who stopped when there were 6 different flavors of jam 30% of them actually bought a jar of jam.

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.