Train Quotes - Page 33

• The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Integrity, Motherhood, Men

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• To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

  Nancy Travis

  Country, Doctors, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For a moment there I convinced myself I had my back against a wall, and suddenly the only wall I find my back against is that of a 10 by 10 writing shack in Glendale, where the summer days average between 90 and 100 and each song can be quantified in the sweat it took to write it. There is no ac in hell, and sometimes you've got to get down to get up. The train is gaining speed I should think.

  Andrew McMahon

  Summer, Song, Wall

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• Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.

  Joachim Low

  Sports, Half, Different

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• Whatever happens, I train hard for the fans and their support.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Train Hard, Support

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• The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

  Alexander Pope

  Flow, Fairy, Daisies

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.140

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• Learn to trust and be trustworthy. When you treat someone as if they are being dishonest, you will train them to be. It's more powerful to treat someone as if they are being honest, and you will train them to now be honest, even if they weren't then.

  Marshall Sylver

  Powerful, Honest, Trustworthy

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• Leadership is hard to train on.

  Ben Horowitz

  Hard

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• Train not to get something right, train so that you can never get it wrong

  David Belle

  Parkour

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• I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

  Dermot Healy

  Home, Writing, People

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• The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Boys, Ideas, What If

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• Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

  Brené Brown

  Bridges, Perfection, Way

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.115, Penguin

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• On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

  Sylvia Plath

  Land, Nurse, Broken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor

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• I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Thinking, Boxing

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• I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

  Marion Jones

  Running, Failure, Thinking

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• In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

  Beck

  Airplane, Play, Japan

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• The thing about Matt Cameron is he has made us 1000 times a better band than we've ever been. He's such a freight train on drums and such a cool individual as a man that it makes us better as a band, and we are now complete with him.

  Mike McCready

  Men, Band, Individual

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• I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn't mean I'm going to miss my train, it just means that I'm not thinking about it right now because I'm speaking to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Thinking, Missing

  "Get Inspired: Q&A with Deepak Chopra". Interview with Crystal Tate, www.womansday.com. December 11, 2009.

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• Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.

  Bill Shankly

  Way, Helping, Socialism

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• It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.

  Richard Yates

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.68, Random House

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• "And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Teaching, Aunt

  Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield”, p.395, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Stop all physical activity and sit naturally at ease. Remain silent and let sound be like an echo. Do not think about anything look at experience beyond thought; open minded like space. Let go of control and stop and rest at ease in that state. Awareness without projection is the greatest meditation. Train and develop like this and you will come to the deepest awakening.

  Tilopa

  Letting Go, Thinking, Echoes

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• USA does such a great job sort of branding and packaging their shows and you know, they move and they sort of you got to keep up, you've really got to keep up with the train.

  James Roday

  Jobs, Moving, Usa

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The first thing to look for when searching for a great employee is somebody with a personality that fits with your company culture. Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Caring, Helping Others

  "How to Win by Throwing out the Traditional Hiring Playbook" by Sean McNamara, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?

  Chalene Johnson

  Athlete, Why Not, Shapes

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