Alfie Kohn Quotes
We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.
Alfie Kohn
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Capek
The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
P. J. O'Rourke
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
Omar Bongo
I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
Victoria Justice
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
Aaron Neville
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. Housman
Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
Tariq Ramadan
Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
Rand Paul
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
Ira Glass
The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
Fernando Pessoa
A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage.
Adolf Hitler
My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
John Hughes
A lot of times, people are reserved or maybe scared of testing what your body is capable of. I'm not.
John Cena
The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
Lao Tzu
We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.
Alfie Kohn
