What's It All About Alfie Quotes

#1. What's it all about Alfie, is it just the moment we live?

Dionne Warwick

#2. I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

Taylor Swift

#3. My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a month? I don't know. It sounds about right to me. (Almost all the specific advice in parenting books is similarly arbitrary. At least I admit it.)

Alfie Kohn

#4. Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.

Robyn Schneider

#5. A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.

Sam Altman

#6. As it happens, most studies have found that unexpected rewards are much less destructive than the rewards people are told about beforehand and are deliberately trying to obtain.

Alfie Kohn

#7. What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade

Alfie Kohn

#8. However we think about these [long-term] goals, we ought to think about them a lot. They ought to be our touchstone, if only to keep us from being sucked into the quicksand of daily life.

Alfie Kohn

#9. For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

Ismail Kadare

#10. I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

Lesley Manville

#11. When you stand by and let bad things happen, your child experiences the twin disappointments that something went wrong and you did not seem to care enough about her to lift a finger to help prevent the mishap.

Alfie Kohn

#12. May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!

D.L. Moody

#13. What provokes particular outrage and ridicule is the idea that children might feel good about themselves in the absence of impressive accomplishments, even though, as I'll show, studies find that unconditional self-esteem is a key component of psychological health.

Alfie Kohn

#14. I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.

Cheryl Cole

#15. If you want to blow up hang around me because all of my friends we would hang out and next thing I know they are major worldwide superstars.

Tamar Braxton

#16. Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

Franz Grillparzer

#17. We tell them how good they are and they light up, eager to please, and try to please us some more. These are the children we should really worry about.

Alfie Kohn

#18. Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

Fred Dibnah

#19. She wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

Donald Miller

#20. How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

Alfie Kohn

#21. The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

Alfie Kohn

#22. Nothing is more important to us when we're young than how our parents feel about us. Uncertainty about that, or terror about being abandoned, can leave its mark even after we're grown.

Alfie Kohn

#23. knowledge is the cause of human progress.

Abdu'l- Baha

#24. The research is clear: getting children to focus on their performance can interfere with their ability to remember things about the challenging tasks they just worked on.67

Alfie Kohn

#25. It seems like someone is using wars and our economic crisis to spread distrust and rancor among the population. In times like these, those are dangerous feelings to spread around.

Riccardo Bruni

#26. The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

Alfie Kohn

#27. If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

Alfie Kohn

#28. In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Barbara Kingsolver

#29. We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.

Alfie Kohn