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Quotes About Training

Having coached in South Africa, you don't really work with wrist-spinners - you work with serviceable finger-spinners.
~ Mickey Arthur
I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.
~ Wladimir Klitschko
It's true that the training and mentality in Spain is totally different to how it is in France.
~ Antoine Griezmann
By the time your training is complete, you'll come on command my defiant queen.
~ B.A. Rhea, Eternal Night
I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
~ Bobby Knight
I do not know anything about luck, apart from that the more I practice, the luckier I get.
~ Ingemar Stenmark
I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.
~ Rickson Gracie
Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training
~ Abhinav Bindra
You train hard and I'll train hard, and may the best man win, and good luck to both of us.
~ Manny Pacquiao
Fracassos são só tentativas em um treino".
~ Napoleon Hill
Grove encourages his people to work in small, autonomous work units in which everyone understands the system and their role in it. Each person contributes their knowledge, expertise and creativity. Team members are trained and motivated to produce to the best of their capacity. When crises arise, the team willingly puts in the extra time, energy and brain power to meet and beat the problems faced.
~ Napoleon Hill
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest forms of service which may be had! If you doubt this, consult the payroll of any university.
~ Napoleon Hill
Hard work is the only thing that will turn sales training and ability into money. No
~ Napoleon Hill
They agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Veteran trader Marty O'Connell calls this the firehouse effect. He had observed that firemen with much downtime who talk to each other for too long come to agree on many things that an outside, impartial observer would find ludicrous (they develop political ideas that are very similar). Psychologists give it a fancier name, but my friend Marty has no training in behavioral sciences.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have anecdotal evidence in my business that MBAs tend to blow up in financial markets, as they are trained to simplify matters a couple of steps beyond their requirement. (I beg the MBA reader not to take offense; I am myself the unhappy holder of the degree.)
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
many problems in society come from the interventions of people who sell complicated solutions because that's what their position and training invite them
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
many problems in society come from the interventions of people who sell complicated solutions because that's what their position and training invite them to do.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
with skills that do not transfer outside of the very machine that they trained on.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Having spent a couple of decades in this mind-set, I am convinced (but cannot prove) that training and education can help us avoid its pitfalls.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A wolf is trained to survive.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Today one needs an education. One needs formal training. Or else one needs to be extraordinarily gifted at self-education. And one needs to understand that the process can never stop, because new knowledge begins to make one's training obsolete almost as soon as one completes it.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.
~ Neal Shusterman
You'd make a good scythe. Citra recoiled. I'd never want to be one. That, he said, is the first requirement
~ Neal Shusterman