Quotes from Ellen Langer

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters

Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.

No worry before its time.

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention....

Boredom can be just another construct of the mind....There is always something new to notice.

The same situation of stimulus called by a different name is a different stimulus. Roller coasters are fun but bumpy plane rides are not!