Quotes About Training

Few things are as essential as education.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.

Children are told to humor their elders who still believe in such things and have never had the scientific and technical training that would show them how incompatible such notions are with modern science.

You can't beat a good education!

I never trained, however, because I was a spontaneous talent. Practising spoiled my style.

Yes, in the last war King had convinced Admiral Henry T. Mayo of the importance of delegating and then trusting his destroyer captains; he had preached the importance of individual training and career advancement so as to be fully capable of executing such instructions; but when push came to shove, King had always had a terrible time biting his own sharp tongue and trusting that his orders would be carried out.

You could no more educate sailors in a shore college than you could teach ducks to swim in a garret"—

From his naval training he recalled someone giving him a rule of thumb about estimating the speed of a vessel based on its bow wake. The

Our grandfathers and great grandfathers18 built schools to train people to have a lifetime of productive labor as part of the industrialized economy. And it worked." To

What if our schools could train students to be better lifelong learners and better adapters to change, by enabling them to be better questioners?

Peter's dad, Joe, had prepared his son to know that a certain amount of hazing is the price of admission for acceptance, not rejection. The trading of wit-covered put-downs is boys and men training each other to handle criticism, unconsciously knowing that the ability to handle criticism is a prerequisite for success.

training is not knowledge and knowledge is not strength, but combine training with knowledge and then you

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

Brooks punished them in drills on the ice and gave them a 300-question test to assess their psychological makeup off it. He was relentless. If they couldn't take this small sampling of life under Brooks, they wouldn't last through one Olympic practice shift.

To keep winning, you have to keep training."

The consequence for not adequately training your Huns is their failure to accomplish that which is expected of them.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The testers found that training attention not only improved executive control; scores on nonverbal tests of intelligence also improved and the improvement was maintained for several months.

A aquisição de habilidades exige um ambiente regular, uma oportunidade adequada para praticar e um feedback rápido e inequívoco sobre a precisão dos pensamentos e ações.

But we should not expect performance in officer training and in combat to be predictable from behavior on an obstacle field—behavior both on the test and in the real world is determined by many factors that are specific to the particular situation. Remove

The prominence of causal intuitions is a recurrent theme in this book because people are prone to apply causal thinking inappropriately, to situations that require statistical reasoning. Statistical thinking derives conclusions about individual cases from properties of categories and ensembles. Unfortunately, System 1 does not have the capability for this mode of reasoning; System 2 can learn to think statistically, but few people receive the necessary training.

I was telling them about an important principle of skill training: rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes.

important principle of skill training: rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes.