Quotes About Training

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

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. But without your curiosity and questions, there is no path, no journey to be taken, even if you adopt all the forms of the tradition.

the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.

Jule believed that the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. She believed that the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don't have one. She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say. She also believed in action movies, weight training, the power of makeup, memorization, equal rights, and the idea that YouTube videos can teach you a million things you won't learn in college.

Jule believed that the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.

Comey assured the ADL that the FBI would continue to "require every new FBI special agent and intelligence analyst in training to visit the Holocaust Museum" because "we want them to learn about abuse of power on a breathtaking scale.

Their assemblies had taught the Athenians how to discuss all matters openly, with arguments for and against. This was good training in learning how to think.

Bucky did the things I couldn't. I was the icon. I wore the flag… But while I gave speeches to troops in the trenches… He was doing what he'd been trained to do… and he was highly trained.

Finally, after three long, hot, and dry weeks, we were at the end of training. We were snipers! Marine scout-snipers! DuBay chaired a formal meeting and pronounced each of us ready, trained, and real live, bonafide snipers. And damned if we didn't think we were.

Too often we attempt to teach people to swim in a classroom." If you have ever taken swimming lessons, you immediately get the importance of getting in the water and practicing under the watchful eye of a swimming rabbi. Jesus invited the original twelve to go swimming with Him.

am inclined to believe it to have been the most salutary, the most practical piece of training which my Father ever gave me. It forced me to observe sharply and clearly, to form visual impressions, to retain them in the brain, and to clothe them in punctilious and accurate language.

As if toughening himself for the crisis to come, Roosevelt intensified his latest exercise routine, "singlesticks." Every evening in the residence, he and Leonard Wood donned padded helmets and chest protectors and beat each other like carpets. "We look like Tweedledum and Tweedle dee," the President joked.

Seminary is for men who are seriously considering the ministry; it is a place where a man may test his gifts and calling in the service of the Word...Uncertainty about a call to the ministry may indicate with certainty a call to theological training. Even when God does not call a man to pastoral work, he often leads through seminary study to other ministries of teaching and to informed leadership in the work of the church.

Increased coaching and exposure to group process skills training will go a long way toward developing this skill. Leaders also must begin to see themselves as organizational architects instead of rock star, charismatic, visionary types. They must see themselves as builders of their organization

Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps.

Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Piscem natare doces [You're teaching a fish to swim].