Ellen Langer Quotes

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

Ellen Langer

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• In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Know
  • Capitalism
  • Last

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Love
  • Football
  • Finish

• Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Friends
  • Date

• Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Study
  • Come
  • Educated

• The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.

  

  Chevy Chase

• Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Done

• The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Up
  • Women
  • American

• I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

  

  Jessalyn Gilsig
  • Time
  • College
  • Painting

• Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

  

  Charles Osgood
  • Sorry

• To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

  

  Amy Schumer
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Challenge

• You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.

  

  Lisa Jewell

• I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • School

• Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Focus

• What happened is we went into a recession beginning in December of 2007 that was the worst since 1929. And it is a very deep hole that we have been struggling to get out of.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Beginning
  • Deep
  • December

• Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Ideas
  • Judging
  • Experiments

• Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

  

  Noel Tichy
  • Power
  • Authority
  • Leaders

• I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • World
  • Mean
  • Boat

• If, as consumers, we can change our mindset so that we see gnarled, twisted, lumpy or otherwise imperfect produce as beautiful, we can create demand, change the system and ultimately help feed the world.

  

  Dana Cowin
  • Beautiful
  • Mindset
  • Consumers

• Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.

  

  William Golding
  • Men
  • Novel
  • Pretending

• Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

  

  Ellen Langer
  • Possibility
  • Mindset