“When we notice new things, we become mindful, and mindfulness begets more mindfulness. The more mindful we become, the more we see ourselves as white shirts and the easier it is to find the red spot and remove it. Attending” — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“If we examine what is behind our desires, we can usually get what we want without compromising: love, caring, confidence, respectability, excitement. Compromising is… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“Most tasks are not inherently pleasant or unpleasant, but an evaluation imposed on a task carries such a presumption. Virtually any activity can be… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“The hefty price for accepting information uncritically is that we go through life unaware that what we’ve accepted as impossible may in fact be… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“Our life is what our thoughts make it. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations” — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“the promise of a big payoff diminishes our appreciation of the present situation” — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“The way we first take in information (that is, mindfully or mindlessly) determines how we will use it later.” — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“It is by logic that we prove. It is by intuition that we discover," said the mathematician Henri Poincare.l” — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“When we notice new things, we become mindful, and mindfulness begets more mindfulness. The more mindful we become, the more we see ourselves as… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits.” — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“mindful approach to any activity has three characteristics: the continuous creation of new categories; openness to new information; and an implicit awareness of more… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“If we describe someone we dislike intensely, a single state-ment usually does it. But if, instead, we are forced to describe the person in… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“An awareness of alternatives at the early stages of learning a skill gives a conditional quality to the learning, which, again, increases mindfulness.” — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
