Alfie Kohn Quotes
In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good. But, without anybody acknowledging it, there is now this little camp of folks who come across as very elitist, that look down on red state voters, who think that Republicans are dumb people.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.
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Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get
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In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
