Training Quotes

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

Big arms are fun, and if their training doesn't interfere with the rest of the program, wait till everybody's gone, like I do.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

I don't have a power nap when I have training. I take it so I am fresh again for the next session.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

It's very relaxing for me to sing. It's a good break from the hard training and the fighting.

Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me.

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and its something that carries with me to this day.

Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.

Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!

What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

Trust in your training, and make it happen.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.