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
Quotes to Explore
I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
Levon Helm
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
We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.
Douglas Leone
The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life.
Bill Shankly
When I stand up from my writing desk, 'John Banville', or 'Benjamin Black' – that is, the one whose name will appear on the title page – vanishes on the instant, since he only existed while the writing was being done.
John Banville
If you just want to help people out you end up being a good person. I mean there’s every single kind of horrible self-help book will tell you if you’re feeling down and you’re feeling depressed just go help someone out and it’s a cliché, you wouldn’t even say it it’s so embarrassing, except it happens to be true.
Penn Jillette
How can it be 'mutually beneficial' to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering, and to buy at world market prices the machinery produced in today's big automated factories?
Che Guevara
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
