Ellen Langer Quotes
Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.
Quotes to Explore
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
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Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
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I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.
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Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
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Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.
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Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
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I like to dominate 100 percent. I don't want to just beat you - I want to wear you down.
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Venus and Mars are our next of kin: they are the two most Earth-like planets that we know about. They're the only two other very Earth-like planets in our solar system, meaning they orbit close to the sun; they have rocky surfaces and thin atmospheres.
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We have a collective responsibility to do everything we can to make sure that everyone feels that the workplace is a safe and equal environment.
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I have an amino acid missing that you can only get from certain kinds of eggs. So, I've been eating a few eggs.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.
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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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She was incredible -- nothing stopped her at all. Whenever I felt ill, I always used to remember that in the same circumstances she would battle on, no matter how she felt. She never gave up.
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Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.
