Quotes About Training

No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.

Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power

in the course of trying to train a horse, we punish him, it should be because we want him to obey us in the future, not because we are angry about his failure to obey us in the past.

Many things can be cured with experience and training. Stupidity is not one of them. - Leon

But the better the training, the greater and more detailed the preparation, the more men are at the mercy of the impossible.

The entire physical universe is essentially a slowed-down molecular training ground designed for the evolution of developing consciousness.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

It has been suggested that an army of monkeys might be trained to pound typewriters at random in the hope that ultimately great works of literature would be produced. Using a coin for the same purpose may save feeding and training expenses and free the monkeys for other monkey business.

The Noble Eightfold Path can be divided into three stages of training: s?la, sam?dhi, and paññ?. S?la is moral practice, abstention from all unwholesome actions of body and speech. Sam?dhi is the practice of concentration, developing the ability to consciously direct and control one's own mental processes. Paññ? is wisdom, the development of purifying insight into one's own nature.

The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

An education is incomplete which does not place a noble purpose behind mental training and make the hands willing to work.

I have in mind an experiment. Take an infant—regardless of ancestry, race, talent, or predilection, so long as he is essentially healthy—and I will make of him whatever you like. I will produce an artist, soldier, doctor, lawyer, priest; or I will raise him to be a thief. You may decide. The infant is equally capable of all these things. All that is required is training, time, and a properly controlled environment.

I have in mind an experiment. Take an infant—regardless of ancestry, race, talent, or predilection, so long as he is essentially healthy—and I will make of him whatever you like. I will produce an artist, soldier, doctor, lawyer, priest; or I will raise him to be a thief. You may decide. The infant is equally capable of all these things. All that is required is training, time, and a properly controlled environment." —JOHN F. WATKINS, Principles of Behaviorism (1913)

Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Soft skills require a lot of hard work.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

Training focuses on simulations. Coaching lives in the real world with real situations.

There's evidence, too, that being good at maths is tied to a more general capacity to spot hidden structures in data. This could explain why it's common to find people who excel at both maths and music, and why training at chess can help improve maths scores – both music and chess have complex data structures at their heart.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

Young people in Europe and North America in particular, but increasingly throughout the world, are being psychologically prepared for useless jobs, trained in how to pretend to work, and then by various means shepherded into jobs that almost nobody really believes serve any meaningful purpose.

In busy times there is also a temptation to let investments such as training take a back seat to getting the work out the door. Only adherence to the firm's principles and values prevents opportunistic behavior that may have short-term benefits but long-term adverse consequences.

It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.