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"The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all." »Alan Simpson
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"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." »Anna Freud
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"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think." »Arthur Shopenhauer
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"I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us." »Anthony Burgess
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"Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity." »William Makepeace Thackeray
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"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it" »Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife." »Margaret Fuller
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"The so-called method of co-education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training." »Pope Pius XI
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"training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." »Mark Twain
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"I wish… All training depts. would become C.L.E.A.R. Creative, Learning, Evaluating & Applying Resources… as clarity is paramount to skill development." »Chase LeBlanc
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"The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement." »Albert Einstein
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"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." »David Rockefeller
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"Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600,000. No, I replied, I just spent 600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience" »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace." »Plato
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"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune." »Plato
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"Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive." »Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
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"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship." »Mark Twain
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"Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue." »Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." »Thomas Huxley
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"By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists." »M. C. Escher
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"Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world." »Dave Barry
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"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?" »Nicolas Martin
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"The only real training for leadership is leadership." »Anthony Jay
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"There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." »Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
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"There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"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." »Aristotle
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"The term "learning disability" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around." »U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of Children
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"(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids." »Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
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"Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. "Chance," Pastuer wrote, "favors only the prepared mind." The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs." »Saturday Review
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