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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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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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 admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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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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When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
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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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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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How often are you really realigning yourselves on strategy? And does it need to be faster, based on how quickly your market actually changes? The answer is usually yes.
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No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
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Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.
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I learned that if we set our mind to things, we can accomplish almost anything no matter what the circumstances are.
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Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
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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.
