Quotes About Training

If I hadn't made it as a footballer I would have been an electrician. I studied to be an electrician even though I was progressing at football because you never know at that stage if you are going to be there for sure.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

but he was pleasantly surprised by Svetlana's tranquillity. She later said, "I had been trained not to make decisions for myself, to wait and to be patient, above all to remain well-mannered.

from the Stone Age on, the weapons of war and the chase have been interchangeable, and one activity has been a preparation and training for the other. In modern war we learn to kill each other at great distances and on a scale which actually threatens the life of our own species. In intervals of peace we proceed to turn the technology so developed … against the lower animals.

Miguel Indurain, five-time winner of the Tour de France, reported a resting heart rate of only 28 bpm. The reason for this is that, with appropriate training, the heart muscle increases in both size and strength.

Anyone can make an athlete tired, but not everyone can make that athlete faster.

Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.

For every five sales you make, another nine customers who had hoped to buy from you will leave your store disappointed and empty-handed. This means your existing store traffic can give you 2.8 times your current sales volume, if you sell only those customers who are ready to buy. The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one. Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.

The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well.

The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one.

Studies have found that old-fashioned lie-on-the-floor static stretching reduces your ability to produce power,

Bottom line: The deadlift supercharges your lunges. And the lunges supercharge your cycling.

Medical education does not exist to provide student with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

A vast meaning is unfolded in each line, with such power that a sentence only a line long would suffice for a whole life's training.

The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

Worked examples are illustrations of how to complete a task—either a step-by-step procedural task or a more strategic task that involves critical thinking or problem solving.

Worked examples allow your learners to borrow knowledge. By studying worked examples, learners can emulate how others perform a task.

Pilot test your training to determine an optimal amount of practice to reach acceptable job competence. As you plan your practice activities, find ways to spread them over a lesson or course. Spaced practice results in better long-term learning with a high effect size of 0.71.

Practice Guideline 5 Assign comparison practice exercises to build relevant prior knowledge, to correct flawed or incomplete mental models, or to reflect on decisions made in a training scenario.

To qualify as practice, the learner must make some kind of behavioral response. For the purposes of formal training, that response usually generates a visible product—one that can be evaluated by the instructional environment.

content "covered" does not necessarily translate into new and desirable behaviors on the job.

For most effective learning of strategic tasks, use two or more worked examples that reflect the same guidelines but vary regarding the context.

However, the benefits of spaced practice are apparent after 60 days. Since many training organizations don't evaluate learning over time, the benefits of spaced practice are rarely documented. Based on a lot of accumulated evidence, though, spaced practice will give you a better long-term return.