Alfie Kohn Quotes
What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body of research suggests that this emphasis undermines students' interest in learning, makes failure seem overwhelming, leads students to avoid challenging themselves, reduces the quality of learning, and invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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I don't want to get fat.
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I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.
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What force is more potent than love?
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
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Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.
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We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.
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I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
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‘...You know what they call you expatriates? White leeches.’
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Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.
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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body of research suggests that this emphasis undermines students' interest in learning, makes failure seem overwhelming, leads students to avoid challenging themselves, reduces the quality of learning, and invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.
