Ellen Langer Quotes
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.Ellen Langer
Quotes to Explore
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
Padmasree Warrior -
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
D. B. Sweeney -
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook -
We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.
Dan Pfeiffer -
Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
Laura Mvula
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I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.
Barbara Kruger -
I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Fiona Shaw -
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson -
Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.
Kaia Gerber -
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.
Hannibal Buress
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
Sally Field -
There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
Isaac Asimov -
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Anthony J. D'Angelo -
I love playing characters that are unrecognizable.
Khandi Alexander -
As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.
Bryce Dessner The National -
I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
Emo Philips
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Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.
Joseph Brodsky -
Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
Courtney Milan -
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
Barney Ross -
There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.
Garth Ennis -
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
Plutarch -
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.
Ellen Langer