Hands On Experience Quotes

• I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.

  Jeff Raikes

  Dirty, Hands, Enjoy

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• The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

  Thomas Sowell

  Truth, Knowledge, Hands

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.320, Hoover Press

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• I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.

  Kofi Annan

  Hands, Leader, Example

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.

  E. O. Wilson

  Dream, Hands, Names

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• A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

  Edward Tufte

  Teaching, Hands, Practicals

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• The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

  Vinod Khosla

  Dirty, Hands, Firsts

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• Some of you think that attending a top business school gives you an advantage. Others think that street smarts and hands-on experience are the best way to get ahead. Additionally, women have a tougher time in the workplace, or so they say. Let's find out.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, School, Thinking

  Source: perezhilton.com

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• I'm delighted that our high school kids are developing these positives relationships with our police officers and getting such terrific hands-on experience. This will provide great benefits to our community now and in the future.

  Deb Matthews

  School, Kids, Hands

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• One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Two, Hands

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• I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.

  Roy Romer

  Running, Thinking, Hands

  "Democrats' National Chair Steve Grossman resigns". www.cnn.com.

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• There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.

  Bill Mollison

  Hands, Water, People

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• Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Cutting, Agency, Hands

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