Quotes About Training

I guess it's from going to Virginia Military Institute. I'm a good person to follow orders.

I played football growing up so I used to lift quite a bit when I was in high school. And then I got to Virginia I was lucky, good strength and conditioning program and coach there.

I've heard from too many business leaders that they are having to look outside of Virginia to find workers with the right skills sets. That's unacceptable.

You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you're now in a different, virtual environment. You're somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game, it may be in a real-time movie, a museum exhibit, or a medical surgical training app.

We support about 5,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with software, training, and technical support. We provide our software at virtually no cost to them, and they're lighting up the world with what they do.

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

I think the theater is basically the boot camp for the actor. If you can survive the rigors of an eight-show-a-week schedule and be at your best all the time, you can handle virtually everything because no other craft requires you to get it right every single time.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Well, I have been trained my entire life to recognize these outbreaks and recognize viruses. I have a Ph.D. in virology.

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.

During my training, a supervisor once told me, "There's something likable in everyone," and to my great surprise, I found that she was right.

You can't get strong without a program designed to develop strength. You can't build muscle unless you do the things that we know will force your muscles to get bigger. You can't make your body leaner unless you eat and train to accomplish that goal. There really are no loopholes. Efficacy + strength + the desire to improve + a solid program = results.

Muscles grow for a variety of reasons, but the main one is strength. If you force them to get stronger, they will get bigger. If you start lifting 100 pounds five times, but train your body to lift 150 pounds five times, you're going to end up with bigger muscles. But if you start off lifting 50 pounds ten times, and progress to lifting the same 50 pounds fifteen times, all you've done is increase the endurance of the muscles, which by itself will not make them bigger.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

Your mind is everything. It's like a muscle. You must exercise it or it will atrophy—just like a muscle.

The soprano studies for seven years in order to be able to open her mouth and make loud sounds for three hours on end.

When you watch an accomplished professional in any field, you are looking at innumerable hours of practice.

Yes, facts were necessary. But frankly, anyone could be trained to collect a bloodstain or find a hair. Or an affair. Or a bank balance that didn't balance. But feelings? Only the bravest wandered into that fiery realm.

But privately Reine-Marie wondered. Wondered whether what people did in a crisis was, in fact, their real selves. Stripped of artifice and social training. It was easy enough to be decent when all was going your way. It was another matter to be decent when all hell was breaking loose.

So ingrained, Gamache knew, was our training to be polite that even in the midst of a terrible personal loss people still smiled.

Pierre Patenaude, whom she was currently interviewing, had just explained that the staff changed almost every year, so it was necessary to train most of them. "Do you have trouble holding on to staff?" she asked. "Mais, non," Madame Dubois said. Agent Lacoste had