David Levithan Quotes

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

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.

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

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.

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

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

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

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions. Because mental energy is a finite quantity.

We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years ago. We're bombarded with tweets, with emails - a state of continuous disruption - and that's bad for our decision making and bad for our thinking.

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Sometimes it just becomes so technical that you forget what you're doing. If you start thinking about how you come down the stairs and think about how each muscle is working, you can't go down the stairs. Anyway, I'm a person who overthinks and overanalyzes everything, so if you give me one thought, it creates a lot more.

You cannot be insightful if you're deluged with information.

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.

After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.

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.

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward.

We are tyrannized by our options.

Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.