Sheena Iyengar Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• You get to decide how you're going to look and what you're going to be when you grow up and when people learned that my parents actually had an arranged marriage people thought that was the most horrific thing on earth. I mean how could anybody allow their marriage of all things to be prescribed by somebody else?

  Sheena Iyengar

  Growing Up, Mean, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• Then, the other thing that affected my interest in choices growing up was the fact that I was going blind and that meant that there were lots of questions that constantly kept arising about how much choices I actually could have.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Growing Up, Choices, Facts

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I mean can you walk to school on your own? Can you study science? Can you study math? Can you go to a normal school? Do you need to go to a special school? What is going to become of you when you grow up? Are you going to have to live on social security and SSI?

  Sheena Iyengar

  Growing Up, School, Mean

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I mean it wasn't that they sat around thinking oh gosh I needed more choices in my grocery stores the way I had come to think about it as an American growing up.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I was living, growing up in a very traditional household and yet at the same time I was going to school in the United States where I was taught the importance of personal preference, so at home it was all about learning your duties and responsibilities whereas in school it was all about well you get to decide what you want you want to eat.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Growing Up, Home, School

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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