"For me a day without training is like a day without eating."
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"If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad."
"Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create."
"The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort."
"If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?"
"I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it."
"I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals."
"Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise."
"The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results."
"With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius."
"Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop."
"There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training."
"When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane."
"Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility."
"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."
"But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training."
"Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians."
"There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far."
"No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start."
"Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife."