Quotes
Authors
Alfie Kohn

"Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?"

-- Alfie Kohn

#Essence Quotes #Goal Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.”
“If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?”
“We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.”
“Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”

Source : "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and Education. Hiram College Memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 327, 1882.
“While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one”

Source : Henry Seidel Canby (1902). “The Short Story”
“Like 'em or hate 'em, these once peaceful gun owners of the '90s are feeling a lot like Jews of 1939 Germany. Maligned, lied about, persecuted and threatened. Afraid, confused and angry.”
“I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.”

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