What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

- Ellen Langer

When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

- Ellen Langer

Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

- Ellen Langer

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

- Ellen Langer

There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can tak…

- Ellen Langer

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

- Ellen Langer

The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

- Ellen Langer

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

- 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 …

- Ellen Langer