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Whereas maximizers might do better objectively than satisficers, they tend to do worse subjectively.
— Barry Schwartz
The secret to happiness is low expectations.
— Barry Schwartz
We get what we say we want, only to discover that what we want doesn't satisfy us to the degree that we expect.
— Barry Schwartz
Bottom line - the options we consider usually suffer from comparison with other options.
— Barry Schwartz
To these three comparisons I have added a fourth: the gap between what one has and what one expects.
— Barry Schwartz
Having the opportunity to choose is no blessing if we feel we do not have the wherewithal to choose wisely.
— Barry Schwartz
We are free to be the authors of our own lives, but we don't know what kind of lives we want to 'write.
— Barry Schwartz
Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.
— Joshua Cohen
Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.
— Barry Schwartz
Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
it is not dancing toy animals that are an endless source of delight for infants, but rather having control.
— Barry Schwartz
The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.
— Barry Schwartz
Without wisdom, brilliance is not enough.
— Barry Schwartz
Oh, her? She had raised a hand against us, and willingly entered our circle. We ate her.
— Seanan McGuire
So the researchers concluded that being forced to confront trade-offs in making decisions makes people unhappy and indecisive.
— Barry Schwartz
We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.
— James Sallis
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
— Barry Schwartz
What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
— Barry Schwartz
Freedom to choose has what might be called expressive value. Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about.
— Barry Schwartz
I'm a normal human being. I don't have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That's a good thing, isn't it?
— Kate Winslet
What we don't realize is that the very option of being allowed to change our minds seems to increase the chances that we will change our minds.
— Barry Schwartz
May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.
— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.
— Barry Schwartz
Adding the second option creates a conflict, forcing a trade-off between price and quality.
— Barry Schwartz
