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.Alfie Kohn
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
Carlos Fuentes -
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.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
Vic Fuentes -
I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Uday Kotak -
Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
Karrie Webb
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
Ian Fleming -
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.
Quentin Tarantino -
I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
Lalla Ward -
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.
Walter Ulbricht -
The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
'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.
Adam Pally
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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.
Dinaw Mengestu -
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.
Courtney B. Vance -
I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
Martin Freeman -
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.
Fred Hampton -
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.
Clarence Clemons -
I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
Davy Jones The Monkees
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My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.
Peter Thiel -
I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
Terry Eagleton -
I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
Valentino Rossi -
NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
Buzz Aldrin -
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
Alfie Kohn