Alfie Kohn Quotes

Some who support more coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control.

Alfie Kohn

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• My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Heroes

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Women
  • Remember

• Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Happen
  • Victim
  • My Own

• I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Kids
  • You
  • Problem

• I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Lost

• I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Movie
  • Option
  • Turn

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Life
  • Art
  • Knowledge

• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Facts
  • Whole

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts

• FYI: The Summer of Gay has been extended into the Year of the Queer. Another heads up: Mad Vow Disease, once limited to wholesome, unimpeachable gay couples earnestly seeking to take on the rights and responsibilities of marriage, has jumped the pen and crossed into the general population.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive….The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Death
  • Christian

• For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • May
  • Fool

• When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

  

  Kathryn Prescott

• Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Time
  • Day
  • Football

• Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

  

  Marian McPartland
  • Hope
  • Boy

• I don’t really practice ‘cause I already know the songs. It’s kind of: if I do good, I do good, and if I mess up, I mess up.

  

  Mason Ramsey
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Mess

• Some who support more coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Children
  • Control
  • Support