Ellen Langer Quotes
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.Ellen Langer
Quotes to Explore
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
Orison Swett Marden -
That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
Adam McKay -
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding -
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
E. L. Doctorow -
Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
J. D. Vance -
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
Sam Altman -
I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
Floyd Skloot -
I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
Paris Jackson -
It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
Eason Jordan -
My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
Victoria Justice -
I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
Karin Slaughter
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Karl Kraus -
If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
Randy Pausch -
'Blessing without good health is a crisis because you cannot enjoy it.'
T. B. Joshua -
The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.
Ogden Nash -
It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.
Jean Piaget -
You shut your mouth,How can you say I go about things the wrong way?I am human and I need to be lovedJust like everybody else does
Morrissey The Smiths
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I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.
Robert James Ritchi -
I get to play with pop music and mix up the style. It's fun to play with party music and nice to get into the club. My big love is songwriting. I write the lyrics and the vocals, and I work with the producers.
Nomi Ruiz -
What if cities embraced a culture of sharing? I see a future of shared cities that bring us community and connection instead of isolation and separation.
Joe Gebbia -
Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.
Oliver Kahn -
Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
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.
Ellen Langer