Ellen Langer Quotes
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Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.
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Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.
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Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.
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Certainty is a cruel mindset.
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What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.
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My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention....
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The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.
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Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters
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Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.
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In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
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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…
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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…
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To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.
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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…
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We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.
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Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
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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…
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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,…
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Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.
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No worry before its time.
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