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Quotes About Training

In your own case, from all that you have told me, it seems obvious that your faculty of observation and your peculiar facility for deduction are due to your own systematic training. -John. Watson-
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
But then she'd trained her sister from an early age that she would always make everything okay. Whatever Tessa asked, she gave. No questions asked. Shahara
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?' 'Probably. That doesn't make you into one
~ Sherwood Smith
Why not teach him a trade?" Pinye says. "Americans work with their hands.
~ Sholom Aleichem
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
~ Sidney Lumet
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti – the KGB – trains a thousand agents at a time.
~ Sidney Sheldon
It's in the nature of many dogs to do some kind of work, training manuals say (assigned a task, dogs showing signs of boredom or depression often perk up), but people almost never give them enough - if anything - to do.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Soldaten sollten diszipliniert werden, nicht hospitalisiert.
~ Simon Scarrow
The second Lateran Council of 1139 had attempted, optimistically, to ban the use of the crossbow by Christians against fellow Christians. But no warlord worth his salt was going to do without them, so Jewish crossbowmen were trained as a special corps for the king, and became famous for specialising in the weapon throughout the kingdom.
~ Simon Schama
but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Non avevo idee sovversive, anzi, non avevo affatto idee, su nulla; ma per tutto il giorno mi allenavo a riflettere, a comprendere, a criticare, e mi ponevo domande; cercavo con precisione la verità: questo scrupolo mi rendeva inadatta alle conversazioni mondane.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It was not an esthetic room. Though Frank Shallard might have come to admire pictures, great music, civilized furniture, he had been trained to regard them as worldly, and to content himself with art which 'presented a message,' to regard 'Les Miserables' as superior because the bishop was a kind man, and 'The Scarlet Letter' as a poor book because the heroine was sinful and the author didn't mind.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Mum's like one of those dressage riders on TV. She changes her voice an iota and we all obey her instantly, like trained Olympic horses.
~ Sophie Kinsella
The great thing about legal training is it really teaches you to lie.
~ Sophie Kinsella
For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.
~ Giancarlo Esposito
Being famous hasn't made my life any easier. Every minute I'm dealing with the baby-sitters is one more minute I'm not training.
~ Hermann Maier
It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.
~ Jenn Suhr
I can always use a good chest fly in my life
~ Jillian Michaels
I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness, ' but a lot of fighters go overboard.
~ George Foreman
I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, and that's it.
~ Conor McGregor
is to teach her impulse control in her early
~ John Medina
I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.
~ John Michael Higgins
In many cases, clever design of educational experiences can deliver greater impact at one-half or less the cost of conventional approaches. I also think that training can easily become a disempowering experience if the implicit message is "shut up and do it this way" instead of "we will be delegating more, so we are providing this course to help you with your new responsibilities.
~ John P. Kotter
In a proud fatherly sadomasicisticly way, I am thrilled when I get hit. As every deep purple bruise on my body represented a perfect swing. If I were to lift my shirt at any time there would be 4-5 bruises on my body. ... As soon as I was able to, I would throw batting practice again from the short distance, and take another shot if necessary to keep the boys in the zone.
~ John Passaro