Elizabeth Gilbert 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.

There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

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.

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.

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.

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant loosing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now.

OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.

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.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

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

[Cost-benefit analysis is used:] ... to produce lofty academic-sounding reasons for endless inaction.

Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!

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.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

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

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.