Overchoice Quotes

Given a choice of five strategies, they choose them all.

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

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.

There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.

I want to do everything. I can never decide on one occupation!

Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

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 trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

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.

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

I want to do everything. That's my problem.

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.

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

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

The more there is on offer, the more you don't want. Fifty options of cereal does not hone an epicurean expertise in the finer points of puffed rice, it murders appetite.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.