"I have a natural resistance to being humiliated."

-- Tom Conti

#Resistance Quotes #Natural Quotes #Humiliated Quotes

“What is very exciting with children is they like to play, and they don't care so much about the meanings [of things], and they are just excited to have weird scenes to do or weird things to do, like playing deaf, or playing sick, or swimming in the water.”
“The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.”
“You look ridiculous,â€ Wren said. â€œWhat?â€ â€œThat shirt.â€ It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didnâ€™t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. â€œCath!â€ her dad shouted from downstairs. â€œPhone.â€ Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it â€œHe must mean the house phone,â€ Wren said. â€œWho calls the house phone?â€ â€œProbably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.”
“In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life.”
“People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.”
“Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is controlled falling. Itâ€™s the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.”
“I love both puppies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their little faces!”

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