Quotes About Training

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

Finding great training, I think, is number one. I did a lot of research and found really great teachers, and it just takes - I took a year off from school and did independent studies so that I could devote all of my time to it. But I think that training is the key, definitely, and it's not a sport.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach. There are very few great conducting teachers, and most great conductors don't teach. Look at Valery Gergiev - what he does is not teachable. A lot of it is on-the-job training, what works and what doesn't work.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

Even though you think boxing is a contact sport, it teaches you not to fight on the street, to behave. It gives you discipline and self-control.

Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.

My main goal for taking up acting as a profession was to show that sport or MMA teaches you life skills that can be applied to any profession in the world.

Dancing really teaches you to be aware of your body, and that transitioned well into wrestling.

Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

CrossFit really teaches the basics and fundamentals of proper mechanical movement.

Zidane is a Real Madrid legend. He teaches us things in every training session - even just by playing with us.

Though every film teaches me at least three new things, I don't subscribe to doing homework about a character's backstory unless it's a historical role or one that requires training in accent.

I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It's because training to improve your martial arts skills and training to step into a cage and fight another person teaches you a lot about... everything.

Just because you have experience driving doesn't necessarily mean you have experience teaching how to drive.

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.

Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.

Home teaching is an excellent preparation for missionary service.

I don't do any sim at home or whatever. If I do, it's with the team, which is a proper preparation for me.

My coach... tells me not to focus on a knockout, and to follow the team game plan.

I've been playing team sports since I could walk... so anything sports-related story is always fun for me.