Bunch Quote by Alfie Kohn Download Open image “Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.” — Alfie Kohn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bunch Dangerous Driven Incentives Individual Management Play Risk Risk management Safe Trying
The people who are playing it totally safe are never going to have either the fun or the reward of the people who decide… — John F. Akers Copy Share Image
“Safety is overrated; taking risks is much less likely to kill us than ever before, and that means that playing it safe is more… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Risk is the essence of any reward - to try the thing that no one else is willing to try. — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given. — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
“a grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
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?… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds? — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and,… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and then that… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Do you know what it is sir? Do you know what the Dance Dance Revolution is? It's not an actual revolution, so you don't… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that. — Ashton Irwin Copy Share Image
No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image