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"Intelligence is not just your IQ. It's your EQ, it's your common sense, it's street smarts."
"Almost anything you have to deal with is dealing with something in the future... You're probably better off knowing something about probability than not."
"Knowledge is not power. Applied knowledge will give you power."
"Specific fact-based knowledge is what actually enables us to do the things that learning General skills is supposed to."
"We know how to do it and it's a very simple thing: you enforce the law."
"I love demystifying things in survival because there's a lot of crap in the books and there's a lot of crap on the shows."
"There's no book that you can write. You have to learn from doing it over and over again."
"A practical understanding of the underlying philosophy and principles of agile PM."
"Knowledge without application is completely useless."
"Experience is the bridge between knowledge and wisdom."
"Education is not simply working your way through Wikipedia. Education is about understanding what you're trying to accomplish and getting the knowledge that you need in order to bend reality to your will."
"There's miles of difference between theory and experience."
"Experience is always better than an educated guess."
"Know your home—understand its functions, weaknesses, and flow. Take time to learn before diving into renovations."
"Don't worry about learning all of it, focus on what you need to know to solve your problem."
"Learn what solves real problems and what your company uses."
"You learn more from this than you do from any textbook or any master's degree because this is like the horse's mouth."
"That right there is going to cover 99% of the things that any hobbyist is ever going to need to know about using a DRO."
"Knowledge alone is not what you need for success; you need actually knowledge in action. Knowledge in action is real power."
"Snares are kind of like one of those things where if you've got a rabbit trail and you know where to put a snare and you know how to design a snare, you can actually catch stuff with them."
"Think about shelter, protecting yourself from the elements."
"It wasn't really rocket science, just applying a little bit of knowledge."
"Knowledge is not power, applied knowledge is power."
"The application of knowledge is power and we will see you guys at Sun."
"It's always the experience that will teach you better than just reading about it."
"Experience is the most important thing you can have in your life more than reading any page in the book or any article online will tell you."
"This person is saying you know you need to change your oil every three months."
"There's nothing better than experience, believe me."
"Diplomas don't do the work, only getting knowledge does."
"School ain't gonna give you the street smart, boy."
"Nothing is better than learning from experience... it's like I've experienced this, I'm not speaking because I learned about it on the internet."
"It's truly capturing all of our practical experience in one book."
"Concrete projects showcase skills better than theoretical knowledge."
"One of the most important survival skills you can have is the ability to create fire."
"Life, both of these hard and soft skills are equally valid when we're talking about how to survive any sort of disaster or life-threatening."
"Having all the supplies and tools can only help you so much in a survival situation if you don't know how to use them."
"Living a life of wisdom is more than just knowing true things."
"You can take my advice to the bank because I've seen these cars in and out of the shop."
"Experience teaches you a lot more than just a degree."
"A little bit of knowledge goes a long way to saving you money."
"Wisdom: know the difference, make the right choices."
"I never grew up being naive so that game has always helped me be where I am today."
"Apparently you can repair it because it's made of iron."
"You've got to know these things so that you actually get the results."
"Knowledge is power, but if you're just gonna let that knowledge sit, then it's not gonna serve you."
"Knowledge is power when you understand what you can or can't do you are able to move and work within those boundaries much better than you would have."
"Listen to the people who are really doing it."
"Handy tools and techniques for DIY maintenance."
"Knowledge is not power, the application of knowledge is power."
"Aircraft weren't designed by professors...they all failed miserably."
"There's nothing definite in HVAC, always more than one way to wire something."
"Wisdom isn't a collection of facts, wisdom is knowledge of how to conduct yourself in the world."
"Lessons learned the hard way can save you thousands."
"Intelligence is being able to tell somebody that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing that it doesn't go in a fruit salad."
"Utilizing a software every day is a tech skill."
"We people that can build a home, we've been doing that forever."
"A person who undertakes to carry a cat home by the tail learns ten times as much as a person who simply watches."
"Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is."
"There's always the people who tell you how to do it but have never done it. That's a fact."
"They walk it like they talk it, they lead by example, they don't just have a bunch of knowledge in their head, but somehow they use that knowledge for others."
"Even just knowing that alone will be like a huge benefit to you because like you'll be able to know so much more about how these businesses operate."
"So kind of like a swamp cooler that's a great technique that I've learned from people like Eric Schultz out at set fest farm and Rose Creek Farm ray Tyler."
"You're essentially processing something that's the size of a dog."
"Real world experience is really all that matters."
"If you can demonstrate that you know how to use the React Context API, then guys, you can pretty much trick your way into a job."
"Fun fact if you ever want to know what the corn you're holding is going to yield just take it how many kernels long and how many kernels are out in this case this one is 40 kernels long and it's 16 kernels around."
"Knowledge is the nuts and bolts, tells us how things work; wisdom is how you apply it in your life."
"Learning maintenance is an extremely valuable skill."
"When you carry a gun you kind of learn a lot more about it than you would if you were just looking at it or shooting it out at the range."
"Quite spectacular, right? And it's actually really simple."
"Experience over education any day of the week."
"You don't need a lot of knowledge, what you need is a skill set."
"You have to bring in what you already know because you do this in real life outside."
"You definitely will learn more from doing something as opposed to reading and watching."
"There really is no substitute for getting your hands dirty and making something to figure out how it actually works."
"I love offering up practical knowledge to help you dive deeper into the world of medicinal plants and seasonal living."
"Another huge part of school for us, and maybe even in my opinion the most valued part of school for us, is just learning life skills."
"Performance-based questions are designed to test your real-world application of your knowledge and the understanding of concepts, not necessarily just rote memorization of facts or port numbers or whatever it may be."
"...and that's something you can't teach the newcomers. They come, and you've got to find out themselves. You know, because you can tell them as much as you want, but until you're actually on the track, you don't... you don't know."
"Learning by doing is the move in every aspect."
"Street smarts are just as important as book smarts."
"Not all learning comes out of books."
"That is how calculating your gas mileage works if you didn't know."
"To show your general understanding, like they're able to do these things and they also know why it's useful."
"That's the stuff they don't teach you in school."
"That is how to change from Celsius to Fahrenheit."
"But nobody teaches that at school, they teach you nonsense about all sorts of stuff."
"Knowledge is only useful to the extent you do something with it."
"You will acquire practical knowledge that will turn into highly skillful talent, which is invaluable for your future career."
"So this is a classical statement. An electrical engineer would not need to know any quantum mechanics to say that's about right."
"You don't learn unless you do it yourself."
"It's not rocket science, but you have to pay attention to the details and you have to do it right."
"Nelson doesn't know school stuff, but he certainly knows about human nature."
"You can't get experience from a book... experience is King, as they say."
"You learn more when you're doing it instead of in a classroom."
"I think it's possible to prioritize embodied truth in our understanding of the Alexander Technique over conceptual ideas."
"Having a little bit of experience helps with keyword research."
"Experience, in my opinion, triumphs education."
"Experience trumps education any day of the week."
"It helps you understand the gun a lot better."
"By knowledge, I do not only mean science in the accepted sense, but the knowledge that is consciously applied by the soul in the ordinary affairs of life."
"There's nothing like on the job experience; that's where you're going to learn the majority of what you need to know."
"The more the individual object dominates the field of vision, the more practical, detailed, and alive will be the knowledge derived from it."
"The best type of information is people's experience, you can't get that from a textbook."
"The knowledge of what works well for people is what's valued in Leaver cultures."
"Some things are learned better through experience."
"Book smarts doesn't mean street smarts."
"Through knowledge... practical knowledge which you could put into action right away."
"You're just gonna learn so much just by doing."
"Sometimes a little street smarts over book smarts is what's needed."
"Life teaches you a lot more than books."
"Most of the time what we're doing when we're talking together is putting those pieces together and forming those clinical judgment decisions that you can't really get from textbooks."
"We will be working with Chromebooks, Windows 10 PCs, smartphones, printers, and other hardware to gain practical working knowledge of these devices."
"I think people learn more by actually doing than just by reading the theory."
"Don't confuse schooling with education. I didn't go to Harvard, but the people that work for me did." - Elon Musk
"I think practical knowledge is worth even more than academic knowledge."