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Quotes About Training

But when we have vaguely said that Education will set this tangle straight, what have we uttered but a truism? Training for life teaches living; but what training for the profitable living together of black men and white?
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Political democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all its threatening evils, supplies a training-school for making first-class men. It is life's gymnasium, not of good only, but of all. We try often, though we fall back often. A brave delight, fit for freedom's athletes, fills these arenas, and fully satisfies, out of the action in them, irrespective of success.
~ Walt Whitman
Si los paseantes de Poe arrojan todavía vistazos carentes de sentido en todas direcciones, los contemporáneos se ven obligados a prestar su máxima atención a las señales viales. De tal manera es que la técnica subyugaba al aparato sensorial humano a un arduo entrenamiento, hasta que llegó el momento en que el cine tuvo correspondencia con una novedosa y perentoria necesidad de estimulación.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
~ Walter Isaacson
Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel. So Johnson sent his first five store managers through the Ritz-Carlton training
~ Walter Isaacson
George Brownell. Franklin excelled in writing but failed math, a scholastic deficit he never fully remedied and that, combined with his lack of academic training in the field, would eventually condemn him to be merely the most ingenious scientist of his era rather than transcending into the pantheon of truly profound theorists such as Newton.
~ Walter Isaacson
El valor de una educación universitaria no es el aprendizaje de muchos datos, sino el entrenamiento de la mente para pensar
~ Walter Isaacson
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.
~ Walter Isaacson
In 1938, the Army Air Corps had 1,773 planes and trained 500 pilots. In 1942, it built 47,000 new planes and trained 30,000 pilots. By the following year, planes were being churned out at a rate of 8,000 a month.
~ Walter Isaacson
You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.
~ Warren Ellis
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 to success.
~ Warren Farrell
if we're having a bad time now, we were given a really rockbottom thorough training for it these past three hundred years and more." "Past is past," Mister Eddie says and he said it real easy. "Except when it's present," Lance says.
~ Warren Miller
Some traders are born with an innate discipline. Most have to learn it the hard way.
~ Welles Wilder
Education has increasingly been reduced to job training, preparing young people not for responsible adulthood and citizenship but for expert servitude to the corporations.
~ Wendell Berry
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
~ Charles Kettering
A less sensitive horse was found to serve.
~ Charles Portis
If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.
~ Charles Portis
We all have to practice, and we have to practice with all of our might for the rest of our lives.
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
Codependency is women's basic training.
~ Charlotte Kasl
The formation of habits is education, and education is the formation of habits.
~ Charlotte M. Mason
with a child on his first offence, and a grieved look is enough to convict the little transgressor; but let him go on until a habit of wrong-doing is formed, and the cure is a slow one; then the mother has no chance until she has formed in him a contrary habit of well-doing.
~ Charlotte M. Mason
To make collections of wild flowers for the several months, press them, and mount them neatly on squares of cartridge paper, with the English name, habitat, and date of finding each, affords much happy occupation and, at the same time, much useful training: better still is it to accustom children to make careful brush drawings for the flowers that interest them, of the whole plant where possible.
~ Charlotte M. Mason
Skill Pill - Any practice or substance that shortens the time required to master a skill or subject.
~ Chase LeBlanc
For a human to win, it is not necessary for a horse to lose. You should not have to take things away from a horse or break him in fragments in order to train him; rather you should add to the horse. The goal should be making, not breaking.
~ Cherry Hill