Alfie Kohn Quotes
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
Quotes to Explore
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If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”
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I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.
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Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
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It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.
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There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
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It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.
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Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys.
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I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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I don't play basketball for the money. I don't play it for the crowd. When I didn't have a friend, when I was lonely, I always knew I could grab that orange pill and go hoop. I could go and dunk on somebody. If things weren't going right, I could make a basket and feel better.
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Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
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Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
