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Quotes About Training

I've defined myself, privately and publicly, by my brief, intense years as an athlete, a swimmer. I practices five or six hours a day, six days a week, eating and sleeping as much as possible. Weekends were either spent training or competing. I wasn't the best; I was relatively fast...
~ Leanne Shapton
They taught me that inhibitions would kill me. Hit early, hit hard. Kill with the first blow. Get your retaliation in first. Cheat. The gentlemen who behaved decently weren't there to train anybody. They were already dead.
~ Lee Child
He was listed as right-handed. The army needed to know that because bolt-action sniper rifles are made for right-handers. Left-handed soldiers don't usually get assigned as snipers. Pigeonholing starts on day one in the military.
~ Lee Child
She moved silently over the thick corridor carpet. The hinge side of the door was closest, and the knob side farthest. She ducked under the peephole's field of view and flattened against the wall beyond the door. She reached out and tried the knob backhand. Long training. Always safer. Guns can shoot through doors. She
~ Lee Child
Neagley pivoted around the jamb and ducked inside. Reacher followed. Long training. Smallest first, biggest last. That way both parties got an unobstructed view. And the bigger party didn't get accidentally shot in the back. There
~ Lee Child
The atmosphere was happy. Maybe a little forced. They were welcomed at the reception desk by a cheerful woman who spoke to them as she would to the bereaved, except not exactly. A little livelier. A unique tone. Maybe part of her training. Maybe learned in role play class. As if visitors to an old people's home made up a unique demographic. Not the recently bereaved. The soon to be. The pre-bereaved.
~ Lee Child
And training has a purpose. It takes people who aren't necessarily very smart and it makes them seem smart by beating some basic tactical awareness into them. Until it becomes instinctive.
~ Lee Child
Army?" "Stands for, aren't really Marines yet." "Like Marine stands for muscles are requested, intelligence not expected.
~ Lee Child
Night School
~ Lee Child
A guy who was taught the front-sight mantra might focus so hard he could lose his peripheral vision.
~ Lee Child
21. Escuela nocturna (Night School)
~ Lee Child
You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.
~ Lee Child
Stands for, aren't really Marines yet." "Like Marine stands for muscles are requested, intelligence not expected.
~ Lee Child
They train long and hard to make such eventualities very unlikely, even impossible.
~ Lee Child
Teams often get launched in a vacuum, with little or no training or support, no changes in the design of their work, and no new systems like e-mail to help communication between teams. Frustrations mount, and people wind up in endless meetings trying to figure out why they are a team and what they are expected to do.
~ Lee G. Bolman
The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity. Scripture tells us that even Jesus 'learned obedience through suffering14—and if that was true for him, why wouldn't it be even more true for us?
~ Lee Strobel
Studies show mental rehearsal helps weekend athletes sharpen their golf, their tennis, their running, whatever their favourite activity. Experts agree if you see the pictures, hear the sounds, and feel the movements of your body in your mind before you do the activity, the effect is powerful.
~ Leil Lowndes
That which is by nature private or a man's own is the body and only the body.[37] The needs or desires of the body induce men to extend the sphere of the private, of what is each man's own, as far as they can. This most powerful striving is countered by music education which brings about moderation, i.e., a most severe training of the soul of which, it seems, only a minority of men is capable. [37] Republic , 464d; cf. Laws 739c.
~ Leo Strauss
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
~ Leon Trotsky
He could not bear the thought of training, not only because of the effort he could never summon from himself now, but also because the idea of fighting was disorienting in its repugnance. He felt that everyone at the Lido Gym was insane. One
~ Leonard Gardner
Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!
~ Lewis Carroll
Feels like we've been in training for the wrong pageant," Nicole said with a sigh.
~ Libba Bray
He worked as one of the two servants allowed Milbourne in his capacity as ship's carpenter: 'servant' in this context meaning an apprentice under training. Both
~ Linda Colley
Reading for writers is like training for athletes.
~ Linda Sue Park