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Quotes About Training

The Arab Legion was the most formidable—twelve thousand soldiers trained by the British, armed by the British, and led by the English general Sir John Glubb.
~ Ruth Gruber
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
~ Ruth St. Denis
The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.
~ Ryan Hall
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
~ S. J. Perelman
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.
~ S.I. Hayakawa
How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.
~ Saadi
I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
It's easy to forget, there is a difference between self-defense and training for self-defense. What we are about to say applies to self-defense– not training.
~ Marc MacYoung
The fencer's weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer's is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The student as boxer, not fencer. The fencer's weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer's is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. For what purpose? you may say. Why, that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat. In my opinion no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Accustom yourself to Master tilings of the greatest difficulty, and which you seem to despair of. For if you observe, the Left-hand, tho' for want of Practice, 'tis insignificant to other Business, yet it holds the Bridle better than the Right, because it has been used to it.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Talented employees need great managers. The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
~ Marcus Buckingham
In omni disciplina informa est artis praeceptio sine summa assiduitate exercitationis.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm training to be an Aunt," I said. "I'm not really supposed to like anyone." 49 My reading abilities progressed slowly and with many stumbles.
~ Margaret Atwood
I'm training to be an Aunt," I said. "I'm not really supposed to like anyone.
~ Margaret Atwood
Los modales le habían sido impuestos por las amables amonestaciones y la severa disciplina de su madre;
~ Margaret Mitchell
Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.
~ Maynard Webb
Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right.
~ T. B. Joshua
...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.
~ John Henrik Clarke
Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.
~ Bobby Sherman
If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.
~ Mikhail Botvinnik
Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.
~ Charisma Carpenter
Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.
~ Gordon Wright