All Ellen Langer Quotes
- Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries. Creative
- Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive. Alive
- Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing. Inspirational
- Certainty is a cruel mindset. Certainty
- What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see. Determine
- My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.... Another Comes
- The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them. Created
- Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters All
- Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view. Another Perspective
- In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves. Better
- 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… Culture
- 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… Blurring
- To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in. Creative
- 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… Anew
- We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility. Embrace
- Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. Certainty
- 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… Achievable
- 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,… All
- Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow. Body
- No worry before its time. Management
- If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we… Abilities
- Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events. Events
- When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there. Inspirational