Alfie Kohn Quotes

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

Alfie Kohn

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• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mind
  • Same
  • Spring

• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Books
  • Before
  • Left

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • People
  • Me
  • Cool

• If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Growing
  • Car
  • Size

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Thought

• We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Best
  • Feels

• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • Christian
  • Trouble

• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • True
  • Past

• Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Great
  • Career
  • Best

• The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Members
  • Judges
  • Judiciary

• My next baby will be my new record.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Baby
  • New
  • Will

• If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Body
  • Something
  • Dangerous

• One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Short
  • Feminine

• April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Advice
  • Tax
  • April

• If we want to rediscover the radical message of Jesus, we must stop diluting it by focusing on power, peace of mind, and prosperity. Instead, we must embrace the truly radical message that invites us to find life through laying it down. Ironically—if we do this—we’ll actually find the life we’re looking for, unfamiliar as it may be.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Jesus
  • Message
  • Prosperity

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Actors
  • Students
  • Share

• I think online dating is a way of procuring people. Like Facebook and Myspace, it's the way that people connect now and procure small children and sometimes dodgy relationships. I don't think it's very healthy.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Looking at where you went to school is a proxy; you assume, because someone went to a good school, therefore they must have the qualities you desire, even though that's not actually really true.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • School
  • Desire
  • Qualities

• Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Democracy
  • Chance
  • Students