Alfie Kohn Quotes

To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

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• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • You
  • Blow

• OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Simple
  • Sweet
  • Values

• My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Laughter
  • Applause

• I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Government
  • Happiness
  • Pursue

• Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Believe
  • Politics
  • Any

• I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Career
  • Change
  • Speak

• No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Evil
  • Choices
  • Born

• Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Amazing
  • Moments
  • Dying

• I usually eat a salad for lunch and before a game since it keeps me feeling healthy and energized on the field. I love piling on the toppings: the more colorful the better! I usually do nuts, fruit and avocado, but I also mix up my creations with different toppings and lettuces.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Different
  • Love

• My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Led

• My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Community
  • Failure
  • Service

• The essayist … can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast...

  

  E. B. White
  • Devil
  • Mood

• At that stage my heart ruled my head'.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Heart

• Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

  

  Umair Haque
  • Leader
  • Grandchildren
  • Grandpa

• Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Training
  • Honor
  • Fate

• Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Desire

• It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Happy
  • Desire
  • Difficult

• How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Desire
  • Means
  • Educated