Quotes About Training
and we must endeavour to persuade those who are to be the principal men of our State to go and learn arithmetic, not as amateurs, but they must carry on the study until they see the nature of numbers with the mind only;
~ Plato
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They will begin by sending out into the country all the inhabitants of the city who are more than ten years old, and will take possession of their children, who will be unaffected by the habits of their parents; these they will train in their own habits and laws, I mean in the laws which we have given them: and in this way the State and constitution of which we were speaking will soonest and most easily attain happiness, and the nation which has such a constitution will gain most. Yes
~ Plato
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but if you wish to get better training, you must do something more than that; you must consider not only what happens if a particular hypothesis is true, but also what happens if it is not true. 135e-136a
~ Plato
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People's souls give up much more easily in hard study than in physical training, since the pain—being peculiar to them and not shared with their body—is more their own.
~ Plato
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Other sort of training, which aims at the acquisition of wealth or bodily strength, or mere cleverness apart from intelligence and justice, is mean and illiberal, and is not worthy to be called education at all.
~ Plato
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A gang of lads, morally neglected, and in that respect inferior to the intermediate class, but in good physical training, attack and throw another set, trained neither physically nor morally, and make off with their food and their dainty clothes. What more is called for than a laugh?
~ Plotinus
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Venerable training ships displayed their chequered hulls by the wooded shore, and whispered of the days of oak and hemp, when the tall three-decker, comely and majestic, with her soaring heights of canvas, like towers of ivory, had not yet given place to the mud-coloured saucepans that fly the white ensign now-a-days and devour the substance of the British taxpayer: when a sailor was a sailor and not a mere seafaring mechanic.
~ Unknown
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Train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
~ R. Kent Hughes
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To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
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Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?
~ Rachel Caine
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For a dog, successfully manipulating a water faucet would be very difficult if not impossible.
~ Dean Koontz
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adapting the code of the Samurai to
~ Dean Koontz
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Stormy believed that we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure. To be with her again, I will have the perseverance of a bulldog, but it seems to me that the training is unnecessarily hard.
~ Dean Koontz
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It is easier to perform surgery than to raise happy, healthy, good children – and surgeons are given years of specialized training, while most of us have to raise human beings from babyhood to adulthood with nothing but our own parents' often very faulty model to guide us.
~ Dennis Prager
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The goal is to tirelessly teach, train, and pray that God will change their hearts.
~ Dennis Rainey
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A trained surgeon is also a potential killer, and an important bit of the training lies in accepting the fact. Your intent is entirely benign - or at least you hope so - but your are laying violent hands on someone, and you must be ruthless in order to do it effectively. And sometimes the person under your hands will die, and knowing that . . . you do it anyway.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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A trained surgeon is also a potential killer, and an important bit of the training lies in accepting the fact. Your intent is entirely benign—or at least you hope so—but you are laying violent hands on someone, and you must be ruthless in order to do it effectively. And sometimes the person under your hands will die, and knowing that ââ'¬Â¦ you do it anyway. I
~ Diana Gabaldon
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You can't make a horse do anything. You see what he's going to do and then you tell him to do that, and he thinks it's your idea, so next time you tell him something, he's more likely to do what you tell him.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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horse," he repeated, drying his hand on his breeches. "You can't make a horse do anything. You see what he's going to do and then you tell him to do that, and he thinks it's your idea, so next time you tell him
~ Diana Gabaldon
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In the back of your mind there's always these contractual things you have to deal with. You try to put that aside when it comes to training and playing.
~ Beauden Barrett
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I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
~ Oscar Robertson
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I've been working on all my aspects of my game.
~ Jahlil Okafor
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It's important to improve all aspects of my game so when the situation comes along, I will be ready.
~ Vijay Shankar
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I've done a lot of astronaut training through the world, Russia, America. And I could always beat the guys on what they were doing because I was always stronger and I've always done everything on my own.
~ Wally Funk
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