Quotes About Training

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.

I didn't see my son walk for the first time. I've left my wife at home with two kids for long periods of time to go to training camps, to foreign countries.

A permanent, growing fund for student aid will help all Oregonians afford needed education and training and build a path towards a stronger future.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

They insist upon the shaving of the moustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.

The Spartans] should not make war often, or long, with the same enemy, lest that they should train and instruct them in war, by habituating them to defend themselves.

Practicing is greater than knowing." Not better than knowing. Greater.

But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end of their labour, have impressed on us that the soundest education and training for a life of active politics is the study of History, and that surest and indeed the only method of learning how to bear bravely the vicissitudes of fortune, is to recall the calamities of others.

Buddhism is primarily a study of mind and a system for training the mind. It is spiritual in nature, not religious. Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. It relies on reason and analysis, contemplation and meditation, to transform knowledge about something into knowledge that surpasses understanding.

The so-called method of co-education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.

You will not be brave unless you train to endure the most dangerous thing you expect until you like it.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Our mind has this incredible talent of creating sob stories out of past. Instead of dwelling on those sob stories of past, we should train our mind to be joyful in this present moment. Life is happening right now in this present moment!

We will never get anywhere in life without discipline, be it in the arts, business, athletics, or academics.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!