Top 35 Ellen Langer Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. From that point on, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and a few other intimates made it their first priority to arrange a deal with Hamilton - letting him have his assumption plan, but hopefully in the form of a compromise that would force him to give up something in return. Chapter
Charles A. Cerami
#4. To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.
Ellen Langer
#5. We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.
Ellen Langer
#7. Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.
Ellen Langer
#8. 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
#9. What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.
Ellen Langer
#10. The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
R. Kent Hughes
#11. The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.
Ellen Langer
#12. I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.
Rigoberta Menchu
#13. In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
Ellen Langer
#14. Mindfulness involves two key strategies for improving health: attention to context and attention to variability.
Ellen J. Langer
#15. Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.
Ellen Langer
#16. When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.
Ellen Langer
#17. There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn - there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.
Alyson Noel
#18. Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.
Chris Moneymaker
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. The table was a pool of candlelight -- so bright that the rest of the room seemed almost black, with the faces of the family portraits floating in the darkness.
Dodie Smith
#23. Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.
Ellen Langer
#24. Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.
Ellen Langer
#26. 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
#27. Boredom can be just another construct of the mind....There is always something new to notice.
Ellen Langer
#28. My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention ...
Ellen Langer
#29. And some of us believe in freedom of the individual over the tyranny of the common good.
Kameron Hurley
#30. 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
#31. Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
Ellen Langer
#32. Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.
Ellen Langer
#33. 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
#34. Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
Ellen Langer
#35. Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters
Ellen Langer
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