Alfie Kohn Quotes
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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Education is very important to me.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
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Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.
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It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.
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A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
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To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.
