Top 100 Langer Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.
Bernhard Langer
#5. 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
#6. Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#7. 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
#8. It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.
Bernhard Langer
#9. The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#10. Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.
Ellen Langer
#11. Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.
Ellen Langer
#12. I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.
Bernhard Langer
#13. I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
Bernhard Langer
#15. He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.
Adam Langer
#17. Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#18. A mind that is very selective to forms ... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#19. And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?
Adam Langer
#20. The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#21. It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.
Justin Langer
#22. You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
Bernhard Langer
#23. Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#24. I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.
Bernhard Langer
#26. I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.
Bernhard Langer
#27. Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.
Adam Langer
#28. It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#29. A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#30. 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
#31. Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?
Adam Langer
#32. The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#33. The image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art
plastic, musical, poetic, balletic
serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#34. Boredom can be just another construct of the mind....There is always something new to notice.
Ellen Langer
#35. Every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
Adam Langer
#37. to clarify our vision of how utterly the Nazi mentality corrupted moral reality for the victims . . . may enable us to comprehend better how little discredit falls to these victims, who were plunged into a crisis of what might call 'choiceless choice
Lawrence Langer
#38. The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#39. I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.
Bernhard Langer
#40. It's up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I'm not sure I'm on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.
Bernhard Langer
#42. 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
#44. 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
#45. The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#46. If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
Susanne Langer
#47. Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.
Adam Langer
#48. Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
Ellen Langer
#49. Isn't that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?
Adam Langer
#50. You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.
Bernhard Langer
#51. Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#52. Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.
Ellen Langer
#53. Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#54. If the human species is differentiated from the beasts by the marvel of consciousness, then we enact our humanity and the very authenticity of our being by straining to "know" through awareness the "unthinkable" experience of others.
Lawrence L. Langer
#56. The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#57. There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
Bernhard Langer
#58. 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
#59. Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
Ellen Langer
#60. All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#61. A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
Susanne Langer
#62. If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.
Bernhard Langer
#64. Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters
Ellen Langer
#65. Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go.
Justin Langer
#66. You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.
Bernhard Langer
#67. My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention ...
Ellen Langer
#68. Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#69. In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#73. Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.
Bernhard Langer
#74. But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.
Bernhard Langer
#75. I'm tired of the music industry these days! They polish everything until it no longer sounds real. The raw uncut sound is something I think no genre but alternative and Aerow music retain.
Clive Langer
#76. The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation ... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#77. A mind that works primarily with meanings must have organs that supply it primarily with forms.
Suzanne Langer
#78. The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment
Justin Langer
#79. We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.
Ellen Langer
#81. I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.
Adam Langer
#82. Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#83. So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It was normal.
Bernhard Langer
#84. Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.
Bernhard Langer
#85. People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold.
Bernhard Langer
#86. Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.
Justin Langer
#87. The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#88. He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they were criminals ...
Adam Langer
#89. You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.
Bernhard Langer
#91. I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
Bernhard Langer
#92. He still wondered what it would be like to be so intriguing that people would actually care if he disappeared.
Adam Langer
#93. Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.
Ellen Langer
#94. A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about.
Justin Langer
#95. 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
#96. Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#98. The wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#99. We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#100. The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
Susanne Katherina Langer
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