Alfie Kohn Quotes

The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.

Alfie Kohn

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• I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Live
  • Teach
  • Option

• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Good
  • Different
  • Thought

• My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Management

• I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Responsibility
  • See
  • Teach

• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Always
  • Management
  • Beliefs

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • War
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Life
  • Teach
  • Detail

• I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Want
  • Dance
  • Teach

• I do wish to emphasize that in light of the Alibaba deal, Youku Tudou management will remain independent, and we will continue to be open to opportunities for cooperation with other strategic partners going forward.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Light
  • Wish
  • Independent

• Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Long
  • Business

• State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • May
  • Political
  • Control

• Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Business
  • Team
  • Communication

• Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Business
  • Risk
  • Management

• Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Management

• If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the 'last mile' of the network over which data flows into a person's home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Home
  • Management

• The best time for transition is during a period of great strength, ... We believe these appointments and the evolution of the governance of the firm will strengthen our management focus and keep the firm on a solid foundation to serve our clients, develop our people, and execute our strategy.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Important
  • Mom
  • Cool

• All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Children
  • Teach
  • Abuse

• My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mother

• You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Science
  • Medicine
  • Tolstoy

• The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Teach
  • Management
  • Measured