Alfie Kohn Quotes

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

Alfie Kohn

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• I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Dad
  • College
  • Successful

• Obviously, you get to do a lot of great things and cool opportunities at the Super Bowl. But at the end of the day, we all want to be here as a player. That's the goal, and that's why I work so dang hard.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
  • Great
  • Why

• And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Like

• One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Keep Going
  • One Thing

• I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Entrepreneur
  • Intriguing

• You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• 1914...Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's...that the 'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Age
  • Dark

• I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Man
  • Working
  • Enthusiasm

• I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Father
  • Daughter

• Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Writing
  • Team
  • Technology

• I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

  

  Akon
  • Feels
  • Said
  • Challenges

• So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

  

  Adam Kirsch
  • Poet
  • Answer
  • Provides

• Anyone that coaches their son, you expect more out of your boy. I'm not talking about stats, but I expected him to be the hardest worker out there.

  

  Paul Coffey
  • Son
  • Expect
  • Coach

• The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

  

  Elizabeth Aston
  • Friend
  • Secret
  • Company

• When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Remember
  • Wind
  • Jump

• Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Remember
  • Hopeless
  • Outcomes

• When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • International
  • Outcomes
  • Controlling