Quotes About Training

My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.

... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.

We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

I have never tried, in even one single little instance, to help cultivate the cultivated classes. I was not equipped for it either by native gifts or training. And I never had any ambition in that direction, but always hunted for bigger game--the masses. - Mark Twain, a Biography

Bilinç, insan?n iyiliÄŸine kar?? kay?ts?zd?r: kendi arzular?n? doyurmak haricinde hiçbir ÅŸeyle ilgilenmez. Ä°nsan?n iyiliÄŸine yönelik ÅŸeyleri tercih etmesi için eÄŸitilebilir, ama onlar? yaln?zca kendisini diÄŸer ÅŸeylere k?yasla daha memnun edeceÄŸi için tercih edecektir.

Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians; to revere the Virgin, the Church, and the saints above everything. Beyond these matters we were not required to know much; and, in fact, not allowed to. Knowledge was not good for the common people, and could make them discontented with the lot which God had appointed for them, and God would not endure discontentment with His plans.

In these were gathered together the brightest young minds I could find, and I kept agents out raking the country for more, all the time. I was training a crowd of ignorant folk into experts—experts in every sort of handiwork and scientific calling.

Now and then a division-agent was really obliged to shoot a hostler through the head to teach him some simple matter that he could have taught him with a club if his circumstances and surroundings had been different. But they were snappy, able men, those division-agents, and when they tried to teach a subordinate anything, that subordinate generally got it through his head.

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

Matthew Thatcher, in his first year at the hall, had drawn and written guides for the cooks and boys, so that all the baron's people were, with much effort, brought up to the level of knowledge equal to that of a juvenile squirrel.

It would be a great advantage to a young man if his early training could eradicate the idea that the world has a great deal to offer him. But the usual result of education is to strenghten this delusion; and our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than from fact.

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future.

we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.

the purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise.

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future. So

They believe in practice, not talent.

Skill, surgeons believe, can be taught; tenacity cannot.

one's willingness to engage in sustained training.

top performers dislike practicing just as much as others do.