Training Quotes

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?

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

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.

My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

My confidence comes from the daily grind - training my butt off day in and day out.

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.

I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.

In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.

During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.

I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.

I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great; I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.