Alfie Kohn Quotes
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
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Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
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'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.
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'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.
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I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.
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I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
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We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution.
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The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.
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I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.
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Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
