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

• 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

• The Russians sought to interfere with the election process - that the cyber hacking that took place by the Russians was part of that campaign, and that they had a clear preference in terms of outcomes.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Outcomes
  • Hacking
  • Election Process

• It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

  

  William Woodruff
  • Morality
  • Determine
  • International

• Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • International
  • Burn
  • Movie Star

• 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