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Quotes About Retraining

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
~ Peter McWilliams
Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.
~ Patrick Lencioni
To some persons nowadays, mindfulness might seem to be just another short course. After auditing it for only a few weeks, they could thereafter meditate casually, whenever … This isn't where Living Zen Remindfully is coming from. Authentic Zen training means committing oneself to a process of regular, ongoing daily life practice. This preparation enables one to unlearn old unfruitful habits, retrain more wholesome ones, and lead a more genuinely creative life. Currently,
~ James H. Austin
This book extends some original implications of mindfulness. It explores the many positive, helpful subconscious aspects of remindfulness. It suggests ways that long-term meditative retraining can help cultivate hidden, affirmative resources of our subconscious memories. Accessing these subtle processes of transformation can enable us to adapt more effectively and to live more authentic lives. To
~ James H. Austin
We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.
~ John Hickenlooper
We are trying to retrain our responses and form mental habits that are kinder, gentler, and less fearful of others.
~ Karen Armstrong
I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
~ Arthur Smith
Is it possible to view life through such a non-dualistic consciousness, while continuing life as we live it today? Unity and A Course in Miracles both assure us that it is possible, and try to teach us this Truth, and to bring this Truth into our daily lives by retraining our minds.
~ William Heller
Strenuous exercise can retrain your body's reaction to stressors. Exposing yourself to predictable, incremental physical stressors in the gym or the playing field increases your capacity to be calm and clear-headed in stressful real-world situations.
~ Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
When the culture of police departments is sometimes infused with bias or preconceived ideas against certain groups, there needs to be reform and retraining throughout. And unfortunately, we cannot rely on local departments to police themselves; we need intervention from the top.
~ Al Sharpton
Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.
~ Scott Turow
I don't think that all the coal miners - or even more realistically, say, the truck drivers whose jobs may be put out by self-driving cars and trucks - they're all going to go and become web designers and programmers.
~ Oren Etzioni
Creating new human jobs might prove easier than retraining humans to actually fill these jobs.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
To retrain your kitten to inhibit her bite, use the scream or hiss to stop the behavior, and when it's due to normal play, simply stop the game. She'll learn that any time she bites the fun stops. The only way for playtime to continue is if she learns to inhibit her bite and claws.
~ Amy Shojai
Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.
~ Sugata Mitra
By allowing many adult learners to retrain and upskill throughout their careers, colleges provide expertise for key sectors.
~ Layla Moran
What are we going to do as automation increases, as computers get more sophisticated? One thing that people say is we'll retrain people, right? We'll take coal miners and turn them into data miners. Of course, we do need to retrain people technically. We need to increase technical literacy, but that's not going to work for everybody.
~ Oren Etzioni
For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.
~ Jill Biden
Nothing is more important, certainly during these times of artificial intelligence, than our public education. And as it continues to grow and evolve, I think you and I know this is going to be critical that we are constantly training and retraining and creating these next-generation jobs.
~ Marc Benioff
I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
~ Arthur Smith
In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
~ W. Edwards Deming
In the United States, resources exist to retrain displaced workers and promote the development of technologies that create new job opportunities for American workers.
~ Óscar Arias
Instead of expecting truck drivers and warehouse workers to rapidly retrain so they can compete with tireless, increasingly capable machines, let's play to their human strengths and create opportunities for workers as companions and caregivers for our elders, our children, and our special-needs population.
~ Oren Etzioni
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.
~ Jennifer Granholm