Ellen Langer Quotes
To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.
Ellen Langer
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
Abu Bakr
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
Irwin Thomas
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
Olivia Colman
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
Rachel Kushner
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
Laura Osnes
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
Nadia Comaneci
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I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.
Patricia Richardson
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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
Abby Wambach
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For me, art is always a kind of theater.
Damien Hirst
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Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
Stevie Wonder
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What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.
Manning Marable
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I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.
Nick Xenophon
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
Ian Anderson
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Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.
David Starkey
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
Banks
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To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.
Ellen Langer
