Alfie Kohn Quotes

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• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Done
  • Know
  • Always

• I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Lot

• I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Comic
  • Notice

• I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Feel
  • Scared
  • Empowered

• Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Country
  • Business
  • History

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• I'm a 'Harry Potter' fan, a 'Twilight' fan, and I think 'The Hunger Games' surpasses them all.

  

  Malese Jow
  • Think
  • Games
  • Hunger

• I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Effort

• Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Long
  • Opinion
  • Unique

• Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Down
  • Trial

• We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Reality
  • Often
  • Self-Love

• What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Future
  • Find
  • Video

• I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Time
  • Effort

• If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.

  

  Angie Harmon

• I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Water
  • Yoga

• The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.

  

  Christina Romer
  • People
  • Future
  • Stop

• In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Work
  • Writing
  • High

• Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage.

  

  Jessica Livingston
  • Together
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• I remember meeting the princesses at Disney World and getting their autographs.

  

  Lily James
  • World
  • Remember
  • Disney

• When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

  

  Margarita Simonyan
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• He tells me that Filipinos are in jail because we Americans want a better world for ourselves. It's America that gives ammunitions to the dictator. He says, Your corporations can do whatever they want here as long as our government protects them from our discontents. It's you who will benefit from a Philippine dictatorship.

  

  Eric Gamalinda
  • Government
  • Americans
  • Dictatorship

• I was thinking about vampires and, specifically, about what makes vampires a romantic trope: about what people like about not just vampires but supernaturally long-lived creatures in general, which is a thing that shows up in probably fifty to sixty percent of paranormal romances... And then, for some reason, I decided to reverse it.

  

  Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Legacy
  • Behaviorism