Alfie Kohn Quotes

The race to win turns us all into losers.

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• The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • World
  • Man

• I've got to win every race.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Race
  • Got

• I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Experience
  • Best
  • Win

• An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Win

• Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Race
  • Election
  • Still

• After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Winning
  • Win
  • Same

• It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Remember
  • First
  • Race

• But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • War
  • Never
  • Win

• I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • America

• All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Want
  • Win
  • Choose

• The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Win
  • Town
  • Trend

• That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Win

• I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Win

• As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Winning

• Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Blues

• At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.

  

  C. H. Douglas
  • Time
  • Change
  • Present

• In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it makes us feel. Here there seem to be no problems with a purely mental state account, no counterpart to the experience machine that could bring us to think that we are being deceived by mere appearances. [...] If I am suffering physical pain then I can be quite wrong about the organic cause of my affliction, or even about whether it has one, without that error diminishing in the slightest either the reality of my pain or its impact on the quality of my life.

  

  L. W. Sumner
  • Experience
  • Problems
  • Condition

• Nothing worth having is easy to get.

  

  Andy Ogle
  • Get
  • Worth
  • Having

• The race to win turns us all into losers.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Win
  • Race
  • Losers