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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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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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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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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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
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We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
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If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.
