Training famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
-- Abbe Pierre -
Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training
-- Abhinav Bindra -
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
-- Abraham Kaplan -
To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.
-- African Spir -
I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
-- Agyness Deyn -
I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.
-- Aida Turturro -
To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
-- Al Oerter -
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
-- Alan Kay -
And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
-- Alan Shepard -
I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969.
-- Alan Thicke -
Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
-- Alberto Salazar -
I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.
-- Alberto Salazar -
There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!
-- Alex Wyllie -
Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in trim by daily analysis of positions with sharp possibilities, and this applies whether he prefers such positions in his play or not.
-- Alexander Kotov -
The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.
-- Alexander Kotov -
What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle
-- Alexander Suvorov -
More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.
-- Alfred Shrubb -
I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.
-- Alicia Vikander -
I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.
-- Alison Moore -
I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.
-- Alison Moyet -
Indeed, there are Islamic terrorist training camps in America
-- Allen West -
Have you tried?" Tove countered, his eyes sparkling. "Well...no," I admitted. "Do it." "How?" He shrugged. "Figure it out." "You're really good at this training thing," I said with a sigh.
-- Amanda Hocking -
During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds
-- Anderson Cooper -
When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.
-- Anderson Silva -
Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.
-- Andrew Johns -
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.
-- Andriy Shevchenko -
When I'm training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It's a bit tiring.
-- Andy Murray -
Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.
-- Angelo Dundee -
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
-- Ann Druyan -
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
-- Anne Fortier -
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
-- Anne Lamott -
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
-- Anne Rice -
Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.
-- Annie Besant -
In training horses, one trains himself
-- Antoine de Pluvinel -
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
-- Antony Jay -
My 'go to' workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It's intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It's hard! I travel a lot, so I can take it on the road with me and do it in a hotel room.
-- Apolo Ohno -
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
-- Archilochus -
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
-- Aristotle -
At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.
-- Arjun Rampal -
I find 12 P.M. as the best time to work out. During training, I do two body parts a day: chest-back, back-triceps or chest-biceps so that my body doesn't get used to a pattern.
-- Arjun Rampal -
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
-- Arsene Wenger -
Training was one thing, reality another.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
If you must use dumbbells for daily training, use heavy ones with fewer repetitions rather than light bells with numerous repetitions
-- Arthur Saxon -
I am trying to attend every training session and do all of my workouts.
-- Asafa Powell -
I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.
-- Ashley Scott -
I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.
-- Audie Murphy -
For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power
-- Baba Hari Dass -
We do not want to make Scout training too soft.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources
-- Barbara Mikulski -
Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group.
-- Barbara Seaman -
I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.
-- Barbara Woodhouse -
You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.
-- Barrett Tillman -
I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.
-- Barry Bonds -
Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.
-- Barry McDonald -
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
-- Barry McGuigan -
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
-- Ben Horowitz -
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
-- Benjamin Bratt -
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
-- Bernard Berenson -
You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training.
-- Bernard Lagat -
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
-- Bill Nye -
I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself.
-- Bill Rodgers -
We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don't want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to that message.
-- Bill Wilkinson -
I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.
-- Billy Zane -
For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.
-- Bobby Bonilla -
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.
-- Booboo Stewart -
The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF IN YOURSELF.
-- Branch Warren -
I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.
-- Branch Warren -
And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
-- Brandi Chastain -
When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.
-- Brett Hoebel -
It's the cross-training that's key. It doesn't let your body adapt to one stimulus too much and it keeps your workouts exciting.
-- Brett Hoebel -
Don't be fooled into thinking that you have the capacity to achieve your best on your own. A training partner in the gym is a great asset because when you think you have reached your limit, there is someone who can push you to go further.
-- Brian Houston -
Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.
-- Brian J. White -
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.
-- Brian Owen -
The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.
-- Brice Marden -
All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.
-- Bridget Moynahan -
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.
-- Brigham Young -
Training is a case of stress management. Stress and rest, stress and rest
-- Brooks Johnson -
This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.
-- Brooks Robinson -
I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
-- Bruce Boxleitner