Alfie Kohn Quotes

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

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• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Business
  • Lot
  • Accomplished

• There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Know
  • Football
  • Goal

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Good
  • Today
  • Day

• I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Want
  • Better
  • Acting

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • House
  • Small
  • Air

• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Give
  • Compromise
  • Surrender

• If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May

• I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• Judiciary is where my passion is.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Passion
  • Where
  • Judiciary

• That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Together
  • Today

• My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Art
  • Powerful
  • Red

• There is no such thing as children’s literature.

  

  N. V. M. Gonzalez
  • Children
  • Literature

• Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

  

  George Gilder
  • Children
  • School
  • Boys

• Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.

  

  Evalyn Walsh McLean
  • Children
  • Money
  • Energy

• I'm always trying to find the balance between diet and fitness that will make my brain function at its optimum. What I discovered works for me is no refined sugars, processed foods, wheat, and dairy - that's when I'm functioning at my best.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Trying
  • Brain
  • Balance

• Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

  

  Alice Schwarzer
  • Language
  • Acceptance
  • System

• The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Children
  • Book
  • Behavior