Alfie Kohn Quotes

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

Alfie Kohn

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• Being in water makes me relax instantly.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Me
  • Water
  • Being

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
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• Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Learning
  • Yourself
  • Hunting

• I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Always

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Listening

• I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Love
  • Learning

• On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • You
  • Miss
  • Grades

• When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Time
  • Day
  • Learning

• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry
  • Enjoy

• Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Road

• I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Learning
  • Clothes
  • WIld

• We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • World
  • Believe
  • Relax

• Growth is a sub-conscious activity, and I learnt a lot in this course, and I'm always open to learning and grasping new things from people. I'm learning with every film, and my confidence levels and technique is also getting better with each film.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Learning
  • Confidence

• I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one's own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Learning

• I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Good
  • Real
  • School

• I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Money
  • Manager
  • Borrowing

• 'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.

  

  Charles J. Shields

• I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Life
  • Rest

• I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Sister

• If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Learning
  • Relax
  • Grades