Alfie Kohn Quotes

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

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• I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Cat

• As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Unity

• Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Thank You
  • Be kind

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Times
  • Project
  • Got

• To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Creation
  • Step
  • Destroy

• One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Right
  • Intelligence

• When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Business
  • New York

• I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Day

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Bird

• In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • West
  • Ruled

• Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • She
  • Girl
  • Go

• The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Science
  • Process
  • Interior

• But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Children
  • Father

• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Event
  • Attempt

• Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Joy

• It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Up
  • Different
  • Done

• Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

  

  Luis Barragan
  • Life

• Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet.

  

  Geoff Tate
  • Thinking
  • Yourself
  • Selling

• Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Trying
  • Task
  • Different Things