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You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to you.
— Seth Godin
In a story so good that it should be apocryphal, Zappos offers graduates of their two-week paid training school $2,000 if they will quit their new jobs.
— Seth Godin
The business model should be such that the employees needed possess the lowest possible level of skill necessary to fulfill the functions for which each is intended.
— Seth Godin
In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life's journey.
— David O. McKay
Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
— Reba McEntire
Reforms are needed to stem the tide of outsourcing good jobs to other nations and to educate and train American workers to meet the challenges of the 21st-century world economy.
— Martin Luther King III
Love God and do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
— St. Augustine
In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.
— Rick Joyner
We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established habits of sloth and rebelliousness, simply on the basis of our desire and effort and sincerity...We have to train for the spiritual life.
— Mark Buchanan
It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from adulthood in one set of habits or another; on the contrary it is of very great, or rather supreme importance.
— Aristotle
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
— Aristotle
Discipline yourself and others won't need to.
— John Wooden