Quotes About Training

Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.

I'm trying to be the best lightweight fighter in the world. That's my main objective. I just have to keep my head up, keep training and enjoy this awesome ride that I'm on.

Being a black belt from the Nogueira brothers, I have the obligation to always defend myself well on the ground.

I have observed and taken part in some mental health first aid training, and I have met many mental health first aiders, and I am convinced that even a few hours' training can make a real difference.

I am observing that to become an actor, people say, they want to join gym. Why join a gym? Why don't you join an institute where they teach you how to act?

I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.

I can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are.

Well, the difference between 10th Planet and most other jiu jitsu schools is the obvious thing... we train exclusively no-gi.

Running had always been my main source of exercise, but I would go to classes at different gyms occasionally, but when those gyms closed, running became my one and only source of exercise.

I'd occasionally do some exercises at home, but I never cared for gyms.

You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy.

We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.

It is not uncommon for fighters' camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an impatience with one's life, and a violence to improve it. Boredom creates a detestation for losing.

You have to know you can take a human life before you ever put on a police uniform.

I had heard that verse many times but in a flash of insight realized that one of the keys I had missed was that hadn't trained my mind to believe, to think positively, to have faith in either God or myself.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy. Then they'd come home and take over Earth. OK, not that.

Strategies and formations were nice, but they were nothing if the soldiers didn't know how to handle themselves in battle.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.

Graff had deliberately set him up to be separate from the other boys, made it impossible for him to be close to them. And he began now to suspect the reasons behind it. It wasn't to unify the rest of the group—in fact, it was divisive. Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else.