"Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew."

--

Source : Ellen J. Langer (1989). “Mindfulness”, Da Capo Press

Ellen Langer

#Artist Quotes #Hands Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.”
“There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause same-sex couples to raise fewer children or impel married opposite-sex couples to raise more children. The Virginia Marriage Laws therefore do not further Virginia's interest in channeling children into optimal families, even if we were to accept the dubious proposition that same-sex couples are less capable parents.”
“God says to us, "Pray, because I have all kinds of things for you; and when you ask, you will receive. I have all this grace, and you live with scarcity. Come unto me, all you who labor. Why are you so rushed? Where are you running now? Everything you need, I have."”
“I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.”
“From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.”
“When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.”

Source : "Emma Stone and Marc Webb Talk THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Honoring the Marvel Icon, and Why Andrew Garfield is the Perfect Spider-Man". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2012.
“He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven”
“A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.”

You may also like:

Daniel J. Siegel
Author
John Bargh
Psychologist
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Professor
Judith Rodin
Krista Tippett
Broadcaster
Martin Seligman
Psychologist
Robert Cialdini
Professor
Solomon Asch
Psychologist
Tal Ben-Shahar
Writer