Quotes About Training

Most of us have little training in listening. We are far more efficient in thinking and speaking. Learning to listen may be as difficult as learning a foreign language, but learn we must, if we want to communicate love.

When your child feels loved, he is much easier to discipline and train than when his "emotional tank" is running near empty.

WE EXPECT COUNSELING centers with their commitments to healing and their high degree of training to be community oases. When those values are violated, it strikes us as very strange. Other organizations dealing with social breakdown and crime often hire less trained employees and sometimes the combustible fumes in the air explode.

I have seen their humor and anger expressed in natural terms and learned more about them as dogs and not just extensions of human training.

I define spiritual direction as the interaction between one person, trained to listen for the movement of God, and another who desires to develop and cultivate an intimate, personal relationship with God.

Brains are plastic. The truth is we are always training our brains – with or without our conscious participation. It's clear from countless reports that it's not uncommon for porn users to move from genre to genre, often arriving at places they find personally disturbing and confusing.

The tools we used in Mercury were primitive, but the dedication of highly trained people offset the limitations of the equipment available to us in these early days and kept the very real risks under control.

A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.

Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

In my opinion, said Lydgate, legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind.

Our servicemen and women are highly trained, highly skilled, and the most professional fighting force in the world.

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.

Players are saying, 'I don't have to have a coach who has only played a little bit. Instead, I can have somebody who won something'.

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

I was a strength coach for over a year where our teams used CrossFit, and our football team won their first conference championship in 36 years!

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all this wonderful stuff happened in 10 to 15 years. About that time, there should have been enormous initiatives to make it affordable for people to fly in space, not just a handful of trained NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts.

I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can't employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school.