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Quotes About Training

What are you doing here?" he asked, stepping toward her. "In Virgin River? I came to spend some time with my family for a while before going back to school. Uncle Walt, Vanessa and Paul, my cousin Tom—he's at basic training, soon to have leave—they're my family." "No," he said, smiling. "Here. Checking me out." "Get over yourself, I'm checking out the cabins," she said, returning the smile.
~ Robyn Carr
I'm going back to sacrifice myself to the gods of residency in two days. They'll chew me up and spit me out. Those chief residents are ruthless and they want revenge for what was done to them when they were the little guys.
~ Robyn Carr
I don't do the things I did. Paco had his ways of training us in manners. In respect. Respect is very important in our family. I was disrespectful to you, to the bride and groom, to everyone. Paco has been reminding me daily.
~ Robyn Carr
The overweight person diets not to punish him- or herself for being heavy but to become healthier. The athlete works out not because he feels guilty for sitting around watching TV but to train his body for competition. So it is with monks and their asceticism—and so it must be with us lay Christians.
~ Rod Dreher
To rediscover Christian asceticism is urgent for believers who want to train their hearts, and the hearts of their children, to resist the hedonism and consumerism at the core of contemporary culture. And it is necessary to teach us in our bones how God uses suffering to purify us for His purposes.
~ Rod Dreher
I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.
~ Rodger Ward
Morning training sessions at Chain-O'-Lakes Stadium, in Winter Haven, were studied with a mixture of excessive optimism and unjustified despondency by the immense Boston press corps, which has traditionally been made uneasy by success.
~ Roger Angell
I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.
~ Roger Bannister
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
~ Roger Bannister
But, curiously, membership of the Society was not open to Indians for many years, even though those presenting their findings were being trained by Indian scholars.
~ Romila Thapar
Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
~ Ron D. Burton
I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.
~ Ron Silver
the sounds of training Secret Service agents and Secret Service
~ Ronald Kessler
Trainees learn to respond to threats and take turns playing the protectee.
~ Ronald Kessler
Even though the training center is in Laurel, agents refer to it as "Beltsville,
~ Ronald Kessler
academy—instructors set up scenarios to show trainees how
~ Ronald Kessler
I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
~ Ronald Reagan
What if instead of telling officers they have a right to go home safe, police training focused on reminding officers that members of the public have a right to go home safe? What if we reminded officers that they are voluntarily taking a risky job, and that if someone dies because of a mistake, it's better that it be a police officer who is trained and paid to take risks than a member of the public?
~ Rosa Brooks
One thing. I've got experience with explosives. Another thing. I've got explosives.
~ Lydia Millet
We need people like you, Dobson," said Gina. "In academia, where I work. Man, do we ever need people like you. People who have been trained. To do the high-level work. Such as killing.
~ Lydia Millet
It's better to be under-trained and rested than to be overtrained and tired.     ~
~ Lynne Cox
It is important to be totally prepared, though it is equally important to make sure that you don't overtrain.
~ Lynne Cox
Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems.
~ M. Scott Peck
Não há cachorrinho tão adestrado, que alfim lhe não ouçamos o latir.
~ Machado de Assis