Gayle Forman Quotes

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

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.

When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

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

I'm not a big fan of options, to be honest. The more options that I have, the less time that I spend actually completing things... ultimately, I think, if you have endless choices, I mean, the tendency to just choose endlessly is there, and that doesn't do anything for anybody, really.

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.

It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.

He who considers too much will perform little.

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

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself 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.

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

I find it very hard to make choices.

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

I think sometimes when things have too much time to develop you overthink it and you start making changes that aren't necessary.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.