Ellen Langer Quotes

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• Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.
• Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.
• Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.
• Certainty is a cruel mindset.
• What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.
• My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention....
• The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.
• Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters
• Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.
• In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
• Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers…
• People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and…
• To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.
• 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…
• We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.
• Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
• There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small…
• 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 them,…
• Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.
• No worry before its time.

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