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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 777e880 | You got a name?" "Kim," he spat. "What's your first name?" "Mister." | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 58c08db | He shook his head. "It's ridiculous. And embarrassing." "People have no respect for professionalism," I said. "Exactly." He waggled the tip of the knife at me, wincing as his fractured arm shifted an inch. "You get it. I'm trying to provide an efficient, skilled service, but no, they want me to stand there and talk the target to death, like I'm some kind of Saturday morning cartoon villain." | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 647fd47 | Westie grinned. "First men to ever escape the Iceberg. Hell, I bet they'll make a movie about us. George Clooney might play me." "You don't look anything like George Clooney," Jake said. "Said might, not would. Don't piss on a man's dreams." | Craig Schaefer | ||
| be9d735 | Jenny sends her best," Margaux said. "With Nicky being Nicky and Agent Black being, well, everywhere, it's not safe for her to leave Vegas right now." | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 6fb2b2a | The first combination I tried was 666. You know how some people always set their passwords to "password" or "secret" even though those are terrible choices? In my experience, ask a demon to pick a three-digit number and nine times out of ten, they go with 666. They just can't help themselves." | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 5259956 | What about the second floor?" Coop said. "Any other security up there?" My gaze flicked to the screen. I kept seeing the other photos, the ones I couldn't show them, fresh in my mind's eye. "Yeah. But that's my job. Weird stuff." "Weird stuff?" Augie asked. "Kid," Coop told him, "something you gotta learn about livin' the life. Every once in a while, on certain special jobs, a guy like Dan here will say the words 'weird stuff.' It's...sort .. | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 6274f74 | Pulling a heist is like going on vacation: you're never ready when you think you are, there's always one last thing to pack, and there's always something you forgot. If you're lucky, you remember it at the last minute. If not...well, you're either in for a bad vacation, or you're going to jail. | Craig Schaefer | ||
| db95439 | Ski masks might be traditional attire for a burglary, but buying four of them when there was no snow on the ground was a great way to stand out like a sore thumb. Believe it or not, cops follow up on that kind of thing, and cashiers remember it. | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 1f958f4 | you take a job, you do the job. Even when the job is to stand beside his throne at a gala and look vaguely menacing." "You're good at that," I said. "Yes, but the specific and targeted sort of menacing is much more fun." | Craig Schaefer | ||
| ed73b3d | You see, your magic can only change what things are. His magic can change why things are. | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 93f8054 | Solitary confinement? That's where they stick you. Hell, you can do your whole sentence in solitary. Pros: you won't get stabbed. Cons: you'll probably go insane from the isolation. | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 926d7a3 | A couple strolled by behind my chair. For a moment, they got between us and the closest light, casting Freddie in a patch of shadow. As the light peeled away, so did the facade. A desiccated corpse reclined on the divan, with skin turned blue and chapped by arctic windburn. The corpse grinned at me from a lipless mouth, showing sharp yellowed teeth. Her nose and most of one cheek had rotted away, the ragged wounds black with frostbite, and .. | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 718db8c | His gaze slid from her headscarf to her glass of club soda. "Still pretending to be a Muslim?" "Hey, Damien," Freddie said, "still pretending to be a man?" "Dances-with-Knives, a pleasure as always." He lowered his voice. "I could ask you a similar question, wendigo." "I was commenting on your lack of genitals." Freddie leaned closer to me, cupped one hand to the side of her mouth and stage-whispered, "Nothing down there. Smooth like a Ken .. | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 69b3e4a | has anybody ever stolen anything from this place and lived to talk about it?" Halima crossed her arms. "Allegedly, a bartender was once short on cab fare home. He borrowed five dollars from the till, intending to pay it back the next day. He was found in his apartment, torn into so many pieces the police had to scoop his remains up with a shovel." "Zero-tolerance policy," Freddie added." | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 94a6953 | Gandhi doesn't pick up an AK-47, and Pixie doesn't volunteer to splash blood on her hands. | Craig Schaefer | ||
| bcd08e4 | The truth is," Nadine purred into my ear, "since the moment we met, all I've been thinking about is you, me, and my favorite pair of scissors. I think I'd start by gelding you, like the vile animal you are. And despite knowing this? Despite hearing me tell you exactly what I think of you and how much I'd enjoy making you suffer?" | Craig Schaefer | ||
| c2b72b7 | Just one question: how did you break the curse?" "Easy," I said. "C'mon, sentenced to life in prison? That's how I knew something was fishy. You would have moved heaven and earth to get me out of here." Bentley smiled thinly, with a mischievous glint in his eye. "You make the plan, son," he said, "and we'll warm up the bulldozers." | Craig Schaefer | ||
| ddd0051 | They're Wildcat Sport XTs. Four-stroke engines, double A-arm suspension, front differential locks. Those babies can haul ass." "Which isn't going to mean a thing," Paul said, "when you ram straight into a boulder in the dark." | Craig Schaefer | ||
| 4fdc419 | Dreams and ambitions are great, but when we link faith to action through honor, we unlock the gifts God has put into our lives. | Russell Evans | ||
| f2169c7 | In an autobiographical essay published in 1946, Albert Einstein reflected on his days as a student of physics some fifty years earlier. He recalled his teachers with affection but, referring to exams, said, "This coercion had such a deterring effect that after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year." | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 6fd2007 | 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 | ||
| f4b91ca | control is an unavoidable feature of human relationships; all that actually varies is the subtlety of the system of reinforcement. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 33821e4 | Malko protivopolozhnosti v obrazovanieto sa tolkova silni i znachimi, kakto tazi mezhdu otpravianeto na iziskvaniia k'm uchenitsite i instruktiraneto im kakvo mogat i ne mogat da v'rshat, ot edna strana, i zadruzhnoto, samostoiatelno t'rsene ot strana na uchenitsite na nachina da zhiveiat i uchat zaedno, ot druga. Govorim za razlika mezhdu tova da si podgotven da prekarash zhivota si, praveiki kakvoto ti kazvat, i da si podgotven da poemash.. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| c0c9879 | Children need to be loved as they are, and for who they are. When that happens, they can accept themselves as fundamentally good people, even when they screw up or fall short. And with this basic need met, they're also freer to accept (and help) other people. Unconditional love, in short, is what children require in order to flourish. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| dfdcf17 | My mother maintained a sense of loving connection with me even during our worst conflicts" or "When my dad disagrees with me, I know that he still loves me."13 So, how would you like your children to answer that sort of question in five or ten or fifteen years--and how do you think they will answer it?" | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 5853472 | All rewards have the same effect," one writer declares. "They dilute the pure joy that comes from success itself." | Alfie Kohn | ||
| ad3d3a4 | Historians have shown that "parents in the Middle Ages worried about their kids no less than we worry about ours today," and by the nineteenth century there is evidence of bars being placed on windows to protect toddlers from falling out as well as "leading strings so that young children wouldn't wander off during walks." | spoiled-children | Alfie Kohn | |
| 0e90119 | We accept without question that children have to memorize the state capitals even though they could look up that information whenever they need it. Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question." | Alfie Kohn | ||
| c918dde | After studying the extensive research of experts like Dylan Wiliam (2011), Thomas Guskey (2011), Alfie Kohn (2011), and John Hattie (2007), I knew that replacing grades with narrative feedback would be a central piece of transitioning from a traditional to a student-centered classroom, | Mark Barnes | ||
| 70d0b5e | Edinstveniiat nachin da pomognem na uchenitsite da stanat pochteni i printsipni lichnosti, a ne khora, koito praviat kakvoto im se kazhe, e da im dadem shans sami da otkriiat smis'l v nravstvenostta. Tova oznachava da im s'deistvame te sami (ili zaedno s drugi) da reshat kak triabva da se d'rzhi chovek. Niama kak da poemem v tazi posoka, ako ne izostavim instrumentariuma na traditsionnata distsiplina. Oshche po-vazhno e da preodoleem prekal.. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 2683f49 | YOU CAN'T ALWAYS JUDGE a book by its cover, but you can sometimes feel justified in discarding one on the basis of its title. Anything called "How to Motivate Your Work Force," "Making People Productive," or something of the sort can safely be passed over because the enterprise it describes is wholly misconceived. "Strictly speaking," said Douglas McGregor, "the answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists--'How do .. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| e728e7f | A growing number of educational theorists over the last couple of decades have made the point that facts come and go, while what endures, what we really require, is the ability to look up facts, to interpret them, to connect one with another, and to analyze their importance. Like the old adage "Give someone a fish, he eats for a day; teach him how to fish, he eats for a lifetime," it is the capacity to acquire and use information that lasts.. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 20ae8f8 | The more we try to measure, control, and pressure learning from without, the more we obstruct the tendencies of students to be actively involved and to participate in their own education. Not only does this result in a failure of students to absorb the cognitive agenda imparted by educators, but it also creates deleterious consequences for the affective agendas of schools [that is, how students feel about learning]. . . . Externally imposed.. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| b079717 | In the workplace, there is no getting around the fact that "the basic purpose of merit pay is manipulative." | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 18ee96b | Some who support more coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled--those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which then is used to justify the use of control. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| c74c208 | To examine the claim that rewards are effective at altering behavior, we pose three questions: First, for whom are they effective? Second, for how long are they effective? And third, at what, exactly, are they effective? (I have already hinted at a fourth question--At what cost are they effective?--but | Alfie Kohn | ||
| a931dc5 | the use of powerful systematic reward procedures to promote increased engagement in target activities may also produce concomitant decreases in task engagement, in situations where neither tangible nor social extrinsic rewards are perceived to be available.7 | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 4f02b3c | 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 | ||
| e81ea6e | There is a time to admire the grace and persuasive power of an influential idea, and there is a time to fear its hold over us. The time to worry is when the idea is so widely shared that we no longer even notice it, when it is so deeply rooted that it feels to us like plain common sense. At the point when objections are not answered anymore because they are no longer even raised, we are not in control: we do not have the idea; it has us. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 9ee5ff6 | four accounts of how praise may impede performance: it signals low ability, makes people feel pressured, invites a low-risk strategy to avoid failure, and reduces interest in the task itself. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 5c5b25a | Rewards usually improve performance only at extremely simple--indeed, mindless--tasks, and even then they improve only quantitative performance. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| b0176c5 | 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. But | Alfie Kohn | ||
| eb3c78d | Good tennis players are those who beat other tennis players, and a good shot during play is one the opponent can't return. But that's not a truth about life or excellence -- it's a truth about tennis. We've created an artificial structure in which one person can't succeed without doing so at someone else's expense, and then we accuse anyone who prefers other kinds of activities of being naive because "there can be only one best -- you're it.. | parenting | Alfie Kohn | |
| 1a83174 | Are we encouraging him to make his own judgments about what constitutes a good performance (or a desirable action) ? Are we contributing to, or at least preserving, his ability to choose what kind of person to be? Or are we attempting to manipulate his behavior by getting him to think about whether he has met our criteria? The | Alfie Kohn |