Ellen Langer Quotes

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

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• I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • See
  • Back
  • Step

• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Effort
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Great
  • Step

• I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • Mind
  • Game

• Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Good
  • High
  • Strong

• I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Morning

• The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • World
  • Free
  • Step

• Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Women
  • Political

• Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Success
  • Best
  • Goal

• I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • House
  • Food

• So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Fall
  • Goal
  • Romance

• Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Fun
  • Hate
  • Wish

• I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

  

  Ellen Raskin
  • Book
  • My Work
  • Wonderful Place

• It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

  

  Carol Lynn Pearson
  • Important
  • Knowledge
  • Use

• 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
  • Goal
  • Step
  • Reach