Ellen Langer Quotes

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  • Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.

  • 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.

    Humor   Play   People  
  • Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

    Wise   Mind   Body  
    "Aniston in Mindfulness Movie". bigthink.com.
  • We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.

    Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.15, Ballantine Books
  • In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

    Ellen J. Langer (2007). “On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity”, p.131, Ballantine Books
  • 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.

    Wise   Envy   Perspective  
  • The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

    Given   Persons  
    Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Ellen Langer, Susan David, Christina Congleton (2017). “Mindfulness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)”, p.9, Harvard Business Press
  • No worry before its time.

    Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.182, Ballantine Books
  • Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.

  • Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

    Knowing   Growth   Ironic  
    Ellen Langer (2010). “Counterclockwise: A Proven Way to Think Yourself Younger and Healthier”, p.13, Hachette UK
  • Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters

    Matter   Moments   Ifs  
    Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Ellen Langer, Susan David, Christina Congleton (2017). “Mindfulness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)”, p.19, Harvard Business Press
  • 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 might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.

  • My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.

    Ideas   Mind   Attention  
    Ellen J. Langer (1989). “Mindfulness”, Da Capo Press
  • 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 J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.35, Ballantine Books
  • When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

    People   Moments   Knows  
  • 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 old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.

    Thinking   Artist   Hands  
    Ellen J. Langer (1989). “Mindfulness”, Da Capo Press
  • Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

    Wise   Growth   Mind  
    Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.24, Ballantine Books
  • To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.

  • Certainty is a cruel mindset.

    Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.24, Ballantine Books
  • Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

  • Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

    Stress   Views   Events  
  • What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

    Wise   Ironic   Looks  
    Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.33, Ballantine Books
  • 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.

    Art   Artist   May  
  • 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.

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