Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world,… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
“The same situation of stimulus called by a different name is a different stimulus. Roller coasters are fun but bumpy plane rides are not!” — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
