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.

Alfie Kohn

• Victory
• Experienced
• Different Things

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Kajol
  • God
  • Hero
  • Mistakes

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Young
  • Bedrock

• 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.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Why
  • London
  • Marathon

• I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • People
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Society
  • Progress

• A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• '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.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

  

  David Grann

• In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.

  

  Chesley Sullenberger
  • Good
  • Bad

• We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.

  

  Douglas Leone
  • Opportunity

• Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Gold

• We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook.

  

  Katie Holmes
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Fall

• In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Game

• A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Growing
  • Independent

• The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • City
  • Wife
  • Promising

• In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Song
  • Past

• Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Victory
  • Experienced
  • Different Things