Alfie Kohn Quotes
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
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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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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
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Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.
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I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
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I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and 'Lord of the Rings,' that trilogy felt like something similar to what 'Star Wars' was for previous generations.
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You have a tendency to just remember the bad times and bad moments. I think that often it's the way of life. Yet the rewards we got from it were fantastic and we played a lot of shows to sellout audiences in I don't know how many cities. I just think we didn't realise how insane it was until we were actually right in the middle of it and couldn't stop. We just couldn't stop.
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Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
