Alfie Kohn Quotes

We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.

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• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Work
  • Important
  • Single

• Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.

  

  Larry Bucshon
  • Good
  • Family
  • Power

• Music is about the performance.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Performance
  • About

• The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Free
  • Beauty
  • Lunch

• When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writer
  • Use

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Important
  • Book
  • Me

• It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Why
  • Knowledge

• I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Worried

• I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I never starved myself.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Starved

• I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Up
  • Day
  • Wife

• I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Food
  • Focus
  • Forget

• Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Women
  • Laws
  • Abortion

• In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

  

  Antonio Gates
  • Step
  • Works
  • Separation

• I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Children
  • Real
  • Help

• I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Believe
  • Technology
  • Crisis

• We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.

  

  Alfie Kohn
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  • Learn
  • Basics