Alfie Kohn Quotes

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

Alfie Kohn

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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.”

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Guy
  • Coffee
  • Self

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Love without knowledge is demonic.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Knowledge
  • Demonic

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Book
  • Hope

• Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Thought
  • Hearts
  • Minds

• All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

  

  Sophocles
  • Wish
  • Evil
  • Concerns

• And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

  

  Sophocles
  • Judge
  • Deeds
  • Foolish

• It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Intelligent
  • Plan

• 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.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Space
  • Measure
  • Cause

• There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Death
  • Teeth
  • Remedy

• It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.

  

  Homer
  • Sorry
  • Wrong
  • Ceasing

• If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

  

  Andy Eddy
  • Game
  • Princess
  • Queen

• 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.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Human Beings
  • Families
  • Environments

• I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • House
  • Advantage
  • Build

• We were so ready with Valerian that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

  

  Luc Besson
  • History
  • Film
  • Sci-Fi

• There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

  

  John Calvin
  • Life
  • God
  • Rewards

• Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Rewards
  • Punishments
  • Two Sides