Alfie Kohn Quotes

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

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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

• 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
  • Challenges
  • Said

• 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

• Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

  

  Georges Bernanos
  • Faith
  • Loses
  • Shape

• However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Good
  • Band
  • Media

• The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • History
  • Universe

• That's filming. You pitch up, give your all, and see what the outcome is.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Outcomes

• There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.

  

  William Easterly
  • Children
  • Medicine
  • International

• 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