Quotes About Training

When you start off as a dancer, you don't become one overnight; you must train for more than a decade.

Coach Staley definitely had me doing overtime. It has been fun, though, man.

Years of experience: People who had ten years of experience did not outperform those with two years of experience. There was no correlation between experience and performance except that those with less than six months' experience with the language used in the exercise did not do as well as the rest of the sample.

Any so-called training experience that lacks the slow-down characteristic is an exercise in nonlearning.

Learning is limited by an organization's ability to keep its people.

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.

If you stop training and learning you start sinking. Nobody can float: You're either rising or sinking. It's been this way for a thousand years. The only difference is that you can rise, or you'll sink, a whole lot faster now.

Thus, the armies that would slaughter each other in the 1940s in the most massive mechanized battles in history trained together in the 1920s.

secret codicils would allow the German Army to illegally rearm and train on Russian territory throughout the twenties and thirties. Tens of thousands of German "work commandos" would come to Russia in 1923 and begin experimenting in the new, still theoretical technique of the blitzkrieg, the idea that small, high-quality, mobile forces backed by airpower could overcome a country before it could react.

Repetition is the mother of skill."

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

Back home, being a nanny—or a governess, as we often say—is a recognized profession, regulated by strict laws. A nanny hopeful must train for three years at an accredited nanny college. I was surprised when I came here to find that you need a license to file nails but nothing to look after children.

Closing your eyes and thinking of emotionally arousing events is simply training for the real thing—spotting the physical signs of your emotions on the fly.

Single-minded, determined, and intelligent organizational talent probably can create an effective army from any group of men.

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

Tsunami was drilling RainWings in evasive maneuvers, although apparently what that actually meant was a lot of yelling things like "Pay attention!" and "Leave that toucan alone!" and "Why are you pink? Stop being pink!" and "THREE MOONS, ARE YOU EATING AGAIN?

LOOK TO THE SKIES! THEY ARE FULL OF DISGUSTING SUNSHINE! LET US GO FORTH AND TRAIN ANEW TO BRING THE WRATH OF THE CLOUDS DOWN AMONG US! -- Tlaloc

These RainWings need someone to whip them into shape,

His mother taught him how to keep watch and how to fight and how to defend his queen at all costs. His father taught him how to make camel shish kebab and date soufflé.

Uh," Six-Claws said. "My, um … my friend Dune helped, too." "Oh, yes?" said Char. "Would you like to join the army as well, dragonet?" "Yes, please, sir!" Dune said eagerly. "Hmmm. You're a bit young, but we can put you in basic training for now. I'll have you two assigned to the same battalion." Char nodded again, looking pleased with himself, and wandered away.