Lena

“Some people are like weeds — you must pull them out of the garden of your life to let yourself grow.”
― Angelika Regossi

“I learned what it meant to be a Jew the day I was told it would be easier if I wasn’t.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“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.”
― Alfie Kohn, Punished By Rewards: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

“In the kitchen, refilling my glass." Peters's voice carried through the kitchen doorway. "You people drive me to drink, and I can't do it on the job.”
― Sara Driscoll, Before It's Too Late