Quotes About Training

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

I had had no art training.

I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 years old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.

I started doing martial arts when I was a kid. I don't often get that kind of role, although I get to do it periodically, which is a lot of fun for me.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

I've always been huge into martial arts.

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.