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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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.
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I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.
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In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.
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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
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I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
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In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
