“You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.” PeopleFirstsFightingMilitaryReadyBattleMajorsTrainingOrganizationSoldierOfficersCatastropheInstillWithout TrustMilitary Training Book:Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices
“For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.” PeoplePlayTrainingTheater Author:Ray Stevenson
“People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.” PeopleHumansNaturalEffortTeachingTrainingAdultsLazyClashWiring Author:B. J. Fogg
“We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.” PeopleWayFirstsTechnologyGenerationsMonthsSixTrainingPercentMeaningfulSix MonthsNew TechnologyNew GenerationRefineryWelding Author:Mukesh Ambani
“Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.” PeopleWayRealHouseWinningPerfectCommonAcceptingTrainingSellsRejectionEstatesPublic LifeCommon GroundMeeting New People Author:Johnny Isakson
“Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.” PeopleHas BeensDoneCareAbleJobsYoungTermDealsClassMiddleCollegeTrainingFairsSickPaidRaisesFocusedMiddle ClassPushingMinimumGood JobAffordableMinimum WageAffordable Care ActJob Training Author:Barack Obama
“Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.” PeopleSchoolTraining Author:David Byrne
“You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.” PeopleCharacterActorsDesignTrainingCharacteristicsObserving Author:Clint Eastwood
“Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and power of that truth... New recruits are now being drafted and trained and older soldiers and generals are being put through intensified training for the next advancement of the Church Army. They are being purified by the Baptism of Fire... Are you ready? Where do you start? What will you do? A new government must be established, a new way of life for those millions of people. You are now ready to rule and reign on your overcomer's throne!” PeopleWayGovernmentNextGivenChurchResponsibilityLordMillionsFireReadyTrainingArmySoldierPurityNew WaysThronesReignAdvancementBaptismRecruitFortsNew GovernmentNew Way Of Life Author:Bill Hamon
“Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHardSchoolFocusHard WorkFineTrainingDeterminationFormalImperativesGradGrad SchoolEveryone Is Different Author:Toks Olagundoye
“This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom, and tradition. Religions polish people to be qualified to enter the region of the original homeland. Because of humankind's many different cultural backgrounds, God sought and set the standard of comparison and has been leading the way toward one unified religious world.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensDifferentCultureReligiousPathTrainingStandardsTraditionOriginalsBackgroundsComparisonRegionsCustomsHumankindQualifiedPolishHomelandUnifiedDifferent ReligionsLeading The WayCustoms And Traditions Author:Sun Myung Moon
“It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble. But it seemed more important to me to share the vitality of Aikido and the vitality of Zen training with people, even though it would be a smaller number of people, it seemed to give them something that could last and improve their lives.” PeopleGivingLongArtImportantWould BeLastsDecisionNumbersShareLong TimeTrainingRetiringVitalityEnsembleAikido Author:Joseph Jarman
“Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.” PeopleHumansSocialDemocracyRightsMediaChangedSpeechTrainingEmbraceHuman RightsPrivilegeSocial MediaMindsetChineseSpheresFreedom Of SpeechCitizenshipPreparingBirthrightLimiting Freedom Of Expression Author:Michael Anti
“In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas” PeopleWorldLongSchoolJobsProcessSoundCommunityTrainingAreasProgramWorkersHungryInstantBitesMentorGratificationHiringRebuildingMarginalizedAfter SchoolInstant GratificationImplementingSound BitesQuick FixesJob TrainingTraining ProgramsAfter School Programs Author:Dan Hill
“It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors, or historians, or C.E.O.'s or whatnot, and I thought, Maybe I want to be a writer.” PeopleWantSawsCollegeTrainingDoctorsHistorian Author:John Brandon
“There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsMindLongArtI CanAbleFilmUsedValuesTermNovelSeeingChangedLike YouBecomingLong TimeTrainingExpectationsAngryPhonesCellsAcquireConcentrationDedicationYoutubeCell PhoneBecoming MoreClipImmediacy Author:Adrian Tomine
“People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.” PeopleThinkingI CanDreamCan DoTalkingClassSuccessfulPlayerFootballInspireTaughtFitTrainingHollywoodTrainWestFollowingOpeningFormerCuteBeing SuccessfulGymMatesLocationAustralianLukeI Can Do ItFootball PlayerMiltonWest Hollywood Author:Dayna Devon
“I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."” PeopleIfsNeedsHelpingWantedActorsNeededTrainingFixingNeed Help Author:Condola Rashad
“Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then learned that songwriting and studying the voice actually pair with a lot of troubles that I had expressing myself, being vulnerable, trusting other people, trusting myself, calming anxiety. It became a life instructor of sorts and that is what kept me engaged with it.” PeopleWantVoiceStudyTroubleAnxietyTrainingProgramVulnerableSettlingEngagedPairsSongwritingVocalPerfectionistCalmingInstructorsTraining Programs Author:Alyson Stoner
“Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.” PeopleNeedsUseHappensAbleGrowthDecisionInformationDevelopmentTrainingAdultsOppositesPersonal GrowthTreatedWorkplaceProfessional Development Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“So, the three qualities of a workplace that would develop people would be information sharing, investing in the training of the workforce, and giving employees the ability to use their training and information to make decisions.” PeopleGivingUseWould BeThreeAbilityDecisionQualityInformationTrainingInvestingEmployeeWorkplaceWorkforceInformation Sharing Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“You have people who are good at English but don't have the training in Buddhism or Shambhala, or they have the training but are not good in English. Getting that mixture is really rare.” PeopleBuddhismTrainingMixturesShambhala Author:Sakyong Mipham
“There's a lotta countries that do very well at dropping bombs. There are other things that Canada actually does better than most other countries. And one of them is training people on the ground.” PeopleWellsDoeCountryTrainingBombsCanadaOther CountriesDroppingDropping Bombs Author:Justin Trudeau
“A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these are people that have truly learned and mastered the choices that they have and how to deal with those choices over a very, very long period of training, so essentially what they're really doing is ruling out all the irrelevant choices and only zeroing in on the most relevant, useful choices at the moment.” PeopleLongMomentsChoicesStarsDealsNumbersMastersPeriodsTrainingTrackChessInstantRelevantIrrelevantGalaxyRuling Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Still I have been invited I don't know how many times to Turkey, where Turkey has been following very quickly in the footsteps of what is sometimes referred to as the movement of cyber-dissidents. They have been training young people and also encouraging them to come into contact with western Muslims.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensStillsSometimesYoungKnow HowMovementTrainingWesternFollowingContactInvitedTurkeysFootstepsCyberDissidents Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Radical transparency is critical to having an idea meritocracy because it shows what's actually happening without spin and prevents people from maneuvering politically behind each others' backs. It brings problems and weaknesses to the surface and allows people to see how they are dealt with, so it's great for training people on how to deal with real problems.” PeopleIdeasRealShowsProblemDealsBehindsTrainingHappeningsWeaknessCriticalSurfaceRadicalTransparencyReal ProblemsMeritocracy Author:Ray Dalio
“For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through relationships and processes. They are not inherent in electrons or photons or quanta any more than they are inherent in soil or trees or people. So my critique of reductionistic science is a critique that I have inherited from my scientific training. But it has been deepened by my experiences as an ecologist, in seeing the ecological destruction taking place today.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensIdeasTodayProcessSeeingTreeExampleObjectsTrainingDestructionPropertyFixedSoilQuantumInherentCritiqueEcologicalElectronsPhotons Author:Vandana Shiva
“I just started training with the best fighters in the world trying to get better. I was a pretty good athlete so I did pretty well with the team and that gave me confidence that I would be able to compete with people.” PeopleWorldTryingWellsWould BeAbleTeamTrainingAthleteFighterGet BetterGood Athlete Author:Robbie Lawler
“I've been really impressed at some of the investments that I've seen in community college and technical schools that are training young people for these jobs in 3D printing and the like.” PeopleSchoolJobsYoungCommunityCollegeTrainingInvestmentImpressedPrintingCommunity College Author:Hillary Clinton
“We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory approach to program development. We showed that major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action. In time leaders from other municipalities expressed interest in replication and the project succeeded in expanding innovations to three other areas.” PeopleIfsUseProblemCareActionWantedThreeOpportunityInterestQualityLeaderDevelopmentProjectsApproachMajorsTrainingResourcesAreasProgramInnovationAccessLocalsExpandingMunicipalityMajor ChangeQuality ServiceReplication Author:Ruth Simmons
“I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours of boxing, 2 hours of weights, an hours of accent and dialect training, I just enjoyed having to do all that for this character [ Vinnie Paz in Bleed for This].” PeopleKindCharacterFactsHoursResponsibilityTrainingWeightEnjoyedBoxingAccentsDialect Author:Miles Teller
“You have people that practice law and are lawyers and go to school for eight years, but you can become a cop in six months and don't have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist. That's insane. Someone that's holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.” PeopleYearsSchoolLawPracticeStreetsMonthsAmountProtectSixTrainingGunEightLawyerInsaneIronCopGoing OutSix Months Author:Colin Kaepernick
“Watch and enjoy Mixed Martial Arts, and if some people are thinking about doing it, they must be very careful and think about enrolling in training first, they must make a thoughtful decision before actually doing it.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsArtEnjoyDecisionWatchesTrainingCarefulThoughtfulMartial ArtsMixed Martial Arts Author:Akshay Kumar
“Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.” PeopleWayMindRightsEffectsHigherAmbitionTrainingGainsInjusticeReasonableDistinctionThrowingApologizingBrighterCastesBelittle Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.” PeopleKnowsModernHeroTrainingPosts Author:Scott Snyder
“Young people ask me for advice, and I tell them to do what I didn't do. Get some training. I took jobs that required talents I didn't have.” PeopleJobsYoungAsksAdviceTalentTrainingAsk Me Author:Dick Van Dyke
“Those negatively affected by globalization, those who are losing their jobs, and losing their skills, people out of training, must be looked after. Governments must establish policies, and governments and companies must actually address that issue, so that those who lose out from globalization can be retrained, recycled, re-established, cared for.” PeopleGovernmentJobsLosesCompanyIssuesPolicySkillsLosingTrainingAddressesAffectedGlobalizationRecycled Author:Christine Lagarde
“When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people. You don't have the problem of discovering a backstory with real people, but there's always a mystery which is common to both fictional and factual characters. They are never quite the person you think they are.” PeopleThinkingPersonsRealCharacterProblemBigsActorsCommonMysteryTrainingTreatsDiscoveringNever QuitFactualFictional Character Author:Toby Jones
“I do a lot of conferences, a lot of leadership training. For about six or seven years I've been making this statement - every time I make it, I can see people just kind of - it's just one of those light bulb moments.” PeopleYearsKindI CanMomentsLightSixTrainingSevenStatementsJust OneConferencesSeven YearsLeadership TrainingBulbsLight Bulb Author:John C. Maxwell
“To make sure we aren't training people for jobs that don't exist, the government should provide companies with loans or loan guarantees. And the government should also directly employ people to do things like coastal restoration, land restoration, reforestation and similar programs that absorb carbon and protect America's beauty.” PeopleShouldGovernmentJobsAmericaCompanyLandProtectTrainingProgramGuaranteesCarbonLoanRestorationCoastal Author:Van Jones
“People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training.” PeopleThinkingSportsMovementBalanceTrainingInstinctAnimalistic Author:Conor McGregor
“I do have investments, investments in new jobs, investments in education, skill training, and the opportunities for people to get ahead and stay ahead. That's the kind of approach that will work.” PeopleKindJobsOpportunitySkillsApproachTrainingInvestmentNew JobGet AheadInvestment In EducationSkills Training Author:Hillary Clinton
“I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.” PeopleMindInterestingDisciplineTrainingMost Interesting Author:Robert Greene
“I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this time they would learn basic Buddhist philosophy in a monastic community where all the teaching and training was directed toward living a perfect monastic life and wasn't channeled out to fit into the lay life - which is what usually happens in Dharma centers where the teachings are directed toward how to live the Dharma in your everyday life.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsPhilosophyHelpingHappensCommunityPerfectTeachingPeriodsFitTrainingLaysEverydayBuddhistStrictEveryday LifeDharmaMonastic LifeBuddhist Philosophy Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I think the same around the world. At 350.org we just trained 500 young people from around the world in Istanbul for a few weeks. We had 5000 applications from young people who wanted to be part of the training. There's real hunger out there.” PeopleThinkingWorldRealWantedYoungWeekTrainingHungerAround The WorldApplicationIstanbul Author:Bill McKibben
“The only thing you can do is have "job training" for people for the new jobs that we're gonna create after the job you have leaves for Mexico. Job training? Are you kidding? That's what schools are! That's the never-ending promise of liberalism.” PeopleSchoolJobsCan DoPromiseTrainingLiberalismMexicoNever EndingNew JobJob Training Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This whole notion of job training centers with the government in charge of making sure you know what to do when certain jobs are lost and new jobs come along? That's not how people have meaningful lives.” PeopleKnowsWholeGovernmentJobsCertainLostTrainingNotionMeaningfulMeaningful LifeNew JobJob Training Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.” PeopleWantNeedsHelpingJobsCommunityQualityCollegeSkillsTrainingGainsProgramHigh QualityApprenticeshipCommunity CollegeTraining Programs Author:Hillary Clinton
“I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."” PeopleKnowsKindReadingChristWalksTrainingLibraryTalesAll KindsFairyFairy Tale Author:Nat Hentoff
“It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively."” PeopleSeemsOpportunitySpeakResponsibilityMoralGreaterTrainingResourcesControversyFacilityMoral Responsibility Author:Noam Chomsky