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I have read several books by John Grisham before and liked them. This book was nothing like the other books. The beginning was good but after that there was nothing happening. Why tell us all about the writers on the island when they were not part of ...more "
“I walked away from the world and into the monastery, believing that where prayer begins, lies finally lose their voice.”
― Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
― Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“I learned what it meant to be a Jew the day I was told it would be easier if I wasn’t.”
― Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
― Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“Some people are like weeds — you must pull them out of the garden of your life to let yourself grow.”
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“What rewards and punishments do is induce compliance, and this they do very well indeed. If your objective is to get people to obey an order, to show up on time and do what they’re told, then bribing or threatening them may be sensible strategies. But if your objective is to get long-term quality in the workplace, to help students become careful thinkers and self-directed learners, or to support children in developing good values, then rewards, like punishments, are absolutely useless. In fact, as we are beginning to see, they are worse than useless—they are actually counterproductive.”
― Punished By Rewards: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
― Punished By Rewards: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
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