Transferable Skills Quotes

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

Any time you've played different sports - for me, it has always been basketball; that is an instinctual sport. You're dribbling the ball, passing. I'm sure that has helped me a lot along the line with helping with my football instincts.

I have experience at every position... I think that's a plus for me.

What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

If I come in, and you're an employer, and I say, 'Well, I was a sniper in the Marine Corps. Do you have any sniper positions open?' 'No.' But if I told you that I was good at communication, good at leadership under stressful environments, team management, personnel management, leadership, being prompt, are stuff that I can bring to the table.

A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

When I decided to leave the military, I realized that the skills I acquired there were transferable to the commercial world both in leadership and the information technology field. I made the decision to move to Oracle because of its strong leadership role.

If somebody wants me to do something I've never done, I can do it more easily because of all of the years of sports I've played.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

As the final weeks of my schooling draw to a close and exams loom, I find myself reflecting on the past six years of my secondary education only to realise that many questions are still unanswered. How have I been shaped by my learning experiences? What skills have I developed that are valuable and transferable in the workplace?

The greatest thing about sports, to me, is just the crossover into everyday life.

Military service might sound like a totally different environment, but every experience you fall back on later, it makes you smarter. Why wouldn't that be true of the military, too?

I felt very comfortable moving from aerospace to automobiles.

I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

In reality, rugby is finite and unpredictable, so players need to have skills off the pitch too.

A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.