Choices

Sheena Iyengar on the Art of Choosing







"We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of multiple choices. We live entirely by the impositon of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ideas with which we learn to freeze, the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience." -- Joan Didian- The White Album

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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. -- Margaret Thatcher


I am desperately trying to figure out why Kamikaze pilots wore helmets. -- Dave Edison

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -- George Bernard Shaw

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. -- Audrey Hepburn

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. -- Humphrey Davy

Choices

Being clever is a gift; being kind is a choice...


Tomorrow...your life begins. How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? Will inertia be your guide or will you be guided by your passions? Will you follow dogma or will you be original? Will you choose a life or ease or a life of service...and adventure? Will you wilt under criticism or will you follow your convictions? Will you bluff it out when you're wrong?...or will you apologise? Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love? Will you play it safe or will you be a little bit swashbuckling? When its tough, will you give up or will you be relentless? Will be a cynic or will you be a builder? Will you be clever at the expense at of others, or will you be kind?
- Jeff Bezos at Princeton-U graduation address (May 2010)