Alfie Kohn Quotes
If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.Alfie Kohn
Quotes to Explore
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
Olivia Cooke -
I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
Kate Fleetwood -
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida -
We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
Randeep Hooda -
I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
Feist -
Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Larry David -
I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
Patricia Clarkson -
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln -
Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.
Kate Christensen -
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. Edwards Deming
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Many different elements can form isomers, but only a few elements on the periodic table, like hafnium, can form isomers that last more than fractions of a second - and might therefore be turned into weapons.
Sam Kean -
And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
Galen Rowell -
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
Otto Hahn -
I think it's hilarious that you would give an endorsement deal to someone who you've heard their lyrics a million times and you thought it was cool. And then they said something a little messed up and you take the endorsement deal away.
Lamorne Morris -
The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.
T. E. Hulme -
Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.
Akira Suzuki -
I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn't talk to anybody. I didn't look you in the eye. I just had that kind of personality as a kid that basically puts a target on you.
Frank Peretti -
Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.
Debbie Ford -
Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
Palmer Luckey -
If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
Alfie Kohn