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

• 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

• 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

• The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • You
  • Like
  • Uncle

• I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Time
  • Children
  • Respect

• At TechStars, I have the privilege of working with hundreds of the best and brightest start-up mentors on the planet. We coach our mentors to take a Socratic approach and to provide data rather than decisions.

  

  David Cohen
  • Up

• My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Age
  • Mom
  • Chance

• Proportional representation is a device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Democracy

• I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Thinking
  • Chance
  • Being

• Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Chance
  • Audience
  • Shame

• 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