Ellen Langer Quotes
In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
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You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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At 16, I would wear clothes that hid my body; now I've found clothes that fit me rather than cover me. I'm not skinny, but I'm healthy, and you have to embrace what you've been given.
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In the end, both extremes had more in common with each other than either did with the middle.
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I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.
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It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.
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I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective. But the older I get, the more I realize that you don't have to be around people you don't want to be around, and you don't have to be in a situation you don't want to be in.
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In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
