Alfie Kohn Quotes
If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.
Quotes to Explore
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I wrote the first version of this book in 1996, in the closing years of the twentieth century. Now, almost two decades into the twenty-first, it seems we are still struggling with what W. E. B. Du Bois identified in 1906 as the “problem of the color line,” even though the demographic composition of that color line has changed quite a bit since then.
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Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.
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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
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If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.
