"People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices"

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Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alfie Kohn

#People Quotes #Community Quotes #Workplace Quotes

“Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.”
“The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.”
“In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.”
“The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.”
“Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.”
“Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.”
“Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.
“I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.”

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