A. J. Langer Quotes

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment

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

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.

Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.

Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.

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

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

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

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

No worry before its time.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

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

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go.