Alfie Kohn Quotes

Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

Alfie Kohn

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• If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

  

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• I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.

  

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• In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.

  

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• I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.

  

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• The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Night
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• We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.

  

  Carl Crawford
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• I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Music
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• I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside' as well.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Good
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• You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

  

  Waite Hoyt
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• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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  • Hate

• I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.

  

  Rajneesh

• Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Real
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• My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
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• Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.

  

  Jason Kidd
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• 'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.

  

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• 'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • World
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  • War

• If everything is very important, then nothing is important.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Important

• I love the people I work with and the stuff I've found and that's found me.

  

  Adam Scott
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• My life is very exciting now.

  

  Jeanne Moreau
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• Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!

  

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  • Support

• Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Life
  • Adaptation
  • Symbiosis

• I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Interest

• With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

  

  John Milton
  • Advanced
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  • Diadem

• Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Interest
  • Psychology
  • Reward