Quotes About Training

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

A task which seems difficult, can be done with adequate training.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.