Meghan Daum Quotes

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

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.

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

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

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.

There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

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

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much.

Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

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 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.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

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.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

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.