Train Quotes - Page 16

• You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychological strength.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Strong, Looks, Body

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.

  Carlson Gracie

  Lions, Want, Ifs

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• Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Crush, Pay

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• I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Real, Simple, Actors

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• If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end.

  Greil Marcus

  Country, Book, Done

  "Greil Marcus: a life in writing". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

  Catharine Beecher

  Teacher, Race, Perfect

  Catharine Esther Beecher, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1860). “An appeal to the people in behalf of their rights as authorized interpreters of the Bible”, p.235

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• I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever they need to do to prepare, more often than not they're not in a very professional environment where you've got a high performance director and a coach that are really monitoring your daily activities.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Athlete, Thinking

  "Coach Salazar talks future of U.S. long distance, training Ritzenhein". Interview with David Epstein, www.si.com. November 5, 2010.

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• When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.

  Dustin Clare

  Summer, Water, Swim

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Night, Stories, Towns

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• I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

  Soulja Boy

  Hate, Boys, People

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• Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

  Max Bill

  Thinking, Train Of Thought, Ideas

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• Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

  Don Cornelius

  Soul, Television, Radio

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• The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.

  Don Cornelius

  Years, Soul, Torches

  "Next stop for 'Soul Train': new ownership" by Kimberly Nordyke, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 18, 2008.

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• You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

  Eric Cantor

  Kids, Simple, Train Wrecks

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• It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

  Jenn Suhr

  Wind, Looks, Able

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• I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

  Stephen Chow

  Trying, Relax, Way

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.

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• As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

  Nonito Donaire

  Team, Thinking, Class

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• My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

  David Alan Grier

  Father, Korea, Polio

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". Interview with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. May 22, 2012.

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• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Book, Reading

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

  Marc Andreessen

  Tools, Needs, Internet

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Grace, Passing Away

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4864, Delphi Classics

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• I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

  Warren Zevon

  Running, Track, Low Self Esteem

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• The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

  Marlon Brando

  Military, Gun, Men

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• But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

  Tyson Gay

  Believe, Wiser, Smarter

  "Tyson Gay" by Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

  Kate Mosse

  Writing, Airports, Bed

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