Quotes About Training

Or any number of the jobs she'd tried and failed at before seeing a story in The Atlanta Journal about women police officers being trained for motorcycle patrol. Motorcycle patrol! Kate laughed at her naïveté. If the firearms instructors were loath to train women, the motorcycle division was downright hostile to the idea of women on bikes. The riding instructor wouldn't even allow them inside the garage.

who didn't know how to use a shotgun?

That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine.

Do you think horses like to race?

After that Sylvie made sure they all went to the swimming baths in town and took lessons, from an ex-major in the Boer War who barked orders at them until they were too frightened to sink.

He had taken a few days' leave from his army training and they had taken refuge in the Charing Cross Hotel while an unexploded bomb in the Strand was being dealt with. They could hear the naval guns that had been stationed on trolleys between Vauxhall and Waterloo--boom-boom-boom--but the bombers were looking for other targets and seemed to have moved on. 'Doesn't it ever stop?' Jimmy asked. 'Apparently not.' 'It's safer in the army,' he laughed.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train the subalterns for routine jobs. They certainly do not train entrepreneurs.

Service makes men competent.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.