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Quotes About Training

Halt and Gilan looked at him, then looked at each other, and said in chorus: "You're an apprentice. You're not ready to think." Then
~ John Flanagan
As the old saying went, Most people practice till they get it right. Rangers practice till they never get it wrong.
~ John Flanagan
They would work from dawn till dusk, studying and practicing weapons craft and battle tactics—although the latter were relatively simple in the Skandian world, usually consisting of a headlong charge in response to the command, "Let's get 'em!
~ John Flanagan
John Flanagan
~ Battleschool
An ordinary archer practices till he gets it right. A ranger practices till he never gets it wrong.
~ John Flanagan
Misschien moeten we hem inderdaad maar onschadelijk maken, Will.' Ze zei het met enige aarzeling, maar zo rustig dat Will een beetje schrok. Hij bekeek haar nu met andere ogen, en besefte ineens dat zijn oude vriendin ook een zware opleiding en training achter de rug had, misschien wel net zo zwaar als die van hem.
~ John Flanagan
That might be a bit of an exaggeration,' she said. 'I can really only knock the head off a gnat. We don't do eyeballs until fifth year.
~ John Flanagan
It took years of training to achieve the level of silence with which a Ranger could move.
~ John Flanagan
Now," he said, "all you have to do is learn to use them. And you know what that means, don't you? Will nodded his head, grinning. "A lot of practice
~ John Flanagan
An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A Ranger practices . . .'?" He let the phrase hang in the air, waiting for them to finish it off. "Until he never gets it wrong
~ John Flanagan
Start with the bow hand close to your body, not extended. Then push with your bow hand and pull with the other. That way you're using the muscles of both arms, not just the string arm.
~ John Flanagan
John Flanagan
~ communiqués
Dat prinsessengedoe is meer iets voor in kasteel Araluen. In mijn gewone leven ben ik een leerling-Jager, in mijn vierde jaar nu. - Maddie
~ John Flanagan
An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.
~ John Flanagan
The organization that proudly declares on the lobby wall its guiding value, "People are our greatest asset!" yet the training dollar is the last one budgeted and the first one cut.
~ John G. Miller
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
~ John Grogan
There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.
~ John Grogan
Staff will need to receive adequate training from IT staff on ways to effectively use databases. Beyond the ability to navigate a database system, staff will need additional skills such as developing queries or using spreadsheets to analyze and present data. In other words, rather than simply concentrating on the business functions that technology supports, student affairs staff should integrate assessment functions into their understanding of technology tools.
~ John H. Schuh
As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.
~ John Hodgman
There are many joys of parenting, but ultimately we are robots training our own upgrades to replace us.
~ John Hodgman
Where in the hell did you learn to fly, Horneman? Microsoft?
~ John J. Nance
The Jedi had always preached against forming connections, to prevent their acolytes from putting too much value in any one relationship. In so doing, they had unwittingly trained their students to be the perfect fugitives, able to cut and run at any moment. As long as they didn't stop to care, they could go on indefinitely.
~ John Jackson Miller
vaucasy n. the fear that you're little more than a product of your circumstances, that for all the thought you put into shaping your beliefs and behaviors and relationships, you're essentially a dog being trained by whatever stimuli you happen to encounter-reflexively drawn to whoever gives you reliable hits of pleasure, skeptical of ideas that make you feel powerless.
~ John Koenig
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
~ John Locke