Alfie Kohn Quotes
Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.
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I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.
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Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
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A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
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'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
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I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
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There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.
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In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.
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We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.
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As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.
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I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
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The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.
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He saw in memory Mendoza’s face, her black eyes sad as she downloaded a chapter on revolutions.Here you go. Great heroes and the things they wrecked. Always easier to destroy something than to create something. It’s harder to plant a garden than to blow up a building, and undoubtedly more boring, but you just might need to do it one day, eh?
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Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.
