Alfie Kohn Quotes

There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.

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• For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Active
  • Worse

• Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Experience

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Kind
  • Lesbian
  • Even

• My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Goal
  • Budget

• If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Man
  • Democracy
  • saw

• I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Strange

• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Teacher

• I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Stage
  • Performance
  • Events

• Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Me
  • End

• I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Done
  • Company
  • Ballet

• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • True
  • Guilt

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • May
  • Free

• 'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven

• I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.

  

  Christopher Buckley

• I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Art

• We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution.

  

  Fred Hampton
  • Up
  • Power
  • Political

• Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • May
  • Truth

• What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers--and may not survive.

  

  T.A. Barron
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women.

  

  Susan Isaacs
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Adventure

• There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • motivation
  • Matters
  • Amount