Training Quotes - Page 19

• Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Communication, Skills

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• Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

  Dean Karnazes

  Morning, Mirrors, People

  Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.98, Rodale

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• I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

  Sadie Frost

  Strong, Character, Ghetto

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Rights, People, Focus

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• The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

  Ayn Rand

  Education, Home, School

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.154, Penguin

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• Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

  Herbert Simon

  Writing, Learning, Want

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• No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

  Socrates

  Men, Healthy, Citizens

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• .. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

  Plato

  Greatness, Opposites, Discipline

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  Jesse Owens

  Quilts, Men, African American

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• The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.

  Brock Chisholm

  Family, Children, Intelligent

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• At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Men

  Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Overcoming, Sometimes

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.

  Lynn Montross

  Marine, Numbers, Navy

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• I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Children, Military, Arson

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• Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.

  Bill Gates

  Business, School, College

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• Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.

  Peter Block

  Block, Fall, Knowledge

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• I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

  Natalie du Toit

  Sports, Effort, Preparation

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• When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day.

  Ray Allen

  Beautiful, Sports, Blessed

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

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Attitude, Skills

  Myles Munroe (2007). “Keys for Leadership”, p.12, Whitaker House

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• I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

  Jeff Daniels

  Funny, Dog, Talking

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• I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Agree, Conscience

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.75

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• My sons named her Bridget because that way they always had their sister, Bridget, with them. People thought we were nuts because on the phone they'd hear us say, "Bridget, sit!"

  Peter Fonda

  Dog, Son, Nuts

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• Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.

  Michael Fox

  Dog, Frustration, Emotional

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• There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.

  Paul Gallico

  Dog, Hate, Cat

  Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

  Julia Glass

  Dog, Personal Question, Want

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