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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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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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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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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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
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You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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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.
