Training Quotes - Page 16

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

  Lois Lowry

  Preparation, Important, Adults

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

  Peter DeFazio

  Should, Force, Security

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• I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Character, Men, Intellectual

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• Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what makes an athlete great. It's too easy to credit Pistorius' success to technology. Through birth or circumstance, some are given certain gifts, but it's what one does with those gifts, the hours devoted to training, the desire to be the best, that is at the true heart of a champion.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Heart, Athlete, Technology

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• Training with confidence is the only way to train

  Dave Draper

  Way, Train

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• Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

  Erwin Rommel

  Errors, Paper, Stones

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• In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

  Bobby Sherman

  Cpr, Years, Police

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• The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Player, Hands

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• I hate losing in training, I'm always arguing, having a go at everybody. I take my job very seriously.'

  Roy Keane

  Jobs, Hate, Always Arguing

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• I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources

  Barbara Mikulski

  Firefighter, Needs, Proud

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• I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• Nobody's more serious about health and fitness than me and staying fit is my top priority, That's why I've teamed up with Medifast to bring my fans a line of products that are packed with everything the body needs to get in better shape and improve their health. I use the products every day as part of my training.

  Ray Lewis

  Priorities, Lines, Serious

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• Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it.

  Torii Hunter

  Spring, Teammate, Chemistry

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• The problem is that you go to the PUBLIC FOOL SYSTEM and they're NOT about training you on CONTRACTS on the PRIVATE SIDE, they're about getting you to ACCEPT PUBLIC OFFERINGS so that the schools of the corporations are in CONTROL.

  Jack Smith

  School, Offering, Corporations

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• The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The sensual shock must be just as forceful as when one hears a clap of thunder or looks into a bottomless abyss

  Iannis Xenakis

  Sensual, Special, Sound

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• Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.

  Linus Pauling

  Drug, Vitamins, Taught

  Linus Pauling (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”

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• I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

  Janet Yellen

  Children, Care, Welfare

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• The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Mind, Spirit, Triviality

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• Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.

  Robert Graves

  Religious, Home, Feelings

  Robert Graves (1957). “Good-bye to all that”, Turtleback Books

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• The old time strongmen used to lift huge weights just enough to clear a sheet of paperit is in this tradition that Sri Chinmoy's lifts should be seen. His real goal is to bring attention to the spiritual life , which is the real source of his power. For someone who is approaching 70 years of age, training every day with such ponderous weights to inspire humanity is the real world record.

  Frank Zane

  Spiritual, Real, Years

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• I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Religious, Betrayal, Symbolism

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• I wouldn't say Musashi is ordinary. But he is. That's what's extraordinary about him. He is not content to rely on whatever natural gifts he may have. Knowing he is ordinary, he is constantly trying to improve himself. No one appreciates the agonizing effort he's had to make. Now that his years of training have yielded such spectacular results, everybody's talking about his 'God-given talent.' That's how men who don't try very hard comfort themselves.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Men, Talking, Years

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• The jobs are there, but, particularly for working adults, traditional education just isnt going to cut it. New ways for training that meet the real-life requirements for adults are critically important.

  Jerry Rubin

  Jobs, Real, Cutting

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• At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

  Hermann Maier

  Motivational, Pain, Athlete

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• My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

  Bill Rodgers

  Motivational, Drinking, Athlete

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