Top 40 Ellen J Langer Quotes
#1. Mindfulness involves two key strategies for improving health: attention to context and attention to variability.
Ellen J. Langer
#4. Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.
Ellen Langer
#5. 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 step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.
Ellen Langer
#6. What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.
Ellen Langer
#7. My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.
Alison Eastwood
#8. The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.
Ellen Langer
#9. I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
Richard Pryor
#10. In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
Ellen Langer
#11. We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.
Ellen Langer
#12. Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.
Ellen Langer
#13. When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.
Ellen Langer
#14. Get back!" shouted Ron, and he, Harry, and Hermione flattened themselves against a door as a herd of galloping desks thundered past, shepherded by a sprinting Professor McGonagall ... As she turned the corner, they heard her scream, "CHARGE!
J.K. Rowling
#15. There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
Franz Schubert
#17. I feel greatful, though, that Sabin was my home base tonight. He let me come back to him as often as I needed to ground myself. When the noise was too much or the social interaction felt overwhelming, he remained my rock.
Jessica Park
#18. To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.
Ellen Langer
#19. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
Grace Noll Crowell
#20. Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations allows us to powerfully transform our lives for the better. A pioneering, beautifully-written book.
Dean Ornish
#21. All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.
Ellen Langer
#22. 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 the same mindlessness.
Ellen Langer
#23. I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.
Haruki Murakami
#24. Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.
Ellen Langer
#25. Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.
Ellen Langer
#27. Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top.
Jason Fulford
#28. 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, envy them, steal from them.
Ellen Langer
#29. Boredom can be just another construct of the mind....There is always something new to notice.
Ellen Langer
#30. Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
James Baldwin
#31. Behavior makes sense from the actor's perception or else the actor wouldn't do it. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, you know, today I'm going to be conforming, mistaken, nasty, and so on.
Ellen J. Langer
#32. 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 quite possible.
Ellen J. Langer
#33. Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
Ellen Langer
#34. Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.
Mike Birbiglia
#35. Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.
Ellen Langer
#36. Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is a fascinating story about the unexpected ways in which our minds and bodies are connected.
Dan Ariely
#37. 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 play the gains will be greater.
Ellen Langer
#38. Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
Ellen Langer
#39. Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters
Ellen Langer
#40. My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention ...
Ellen Langer
