Training Quotes - Page 20

• A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Dog, Video

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• The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to be a table meant for dogs.

  Jean Little

  Funny, Dog, Coffee

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• Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

  Donald McCaig

  Dog, Museums, Blood

  Donald McCaig (2014). “Nop's Trials: A Novel”, p.136, Open Road Media

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• Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.

  Barry McDonald

  Dog, Tasks, Show Me

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• Because of Diamond, I have had to begin much of the work afresh. I will not, however, rid myself of her, nor even punish her. She knew not what she was doing, and that which she did was for my protection and for love of my person. Her place remains at my side or against my feet when I lie abed.

  Isaac Newton

  Dog, Lying, Feet

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• When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Zero, Distance

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• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Dog, Inability, Demand

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Dog, Moments, Hours

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• My dogs have never been good at things like "sit," "stay," or even "come." I think that we've given the tourists a few laughs, especially when the dogs hit the end of their leashes hard enough to drag Gloria down the street.

  James Stewart

  Dog, Thinking, Laughing

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• The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

  Edward Thorndike

  Dog, Fashion, Hands

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.322, Routledge

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• I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Dog, Hands

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Doe, Answers, Media Training

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• It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Risk, Speak, Reports

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• The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.

  Alexander Kotov

  Typical, Chess, Study

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• Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in trim by daily analysis of positions with sharp possibilities, and this applies whether he prefers such positions in his play or not.

  Alexander Kotov

  Practice, Play, Vision

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• Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?

  Hans Kmoch

  Boxing, Shadow, Important

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• The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mom, Spiritual, Real

  "Mindful Parenting". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 1998.

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• Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Analysis, Chess, Form

  Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

  Hamid Karzai

  Motivation, War, Believe

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• Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Teamwork, Years, Track

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

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• To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Taste, Suits

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• During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

  Marty Liquori

  Running, Horse, Distance

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• In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

  Simon Hoggart

  Success, Courses

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.

  Humpy Koneru

  Exercise, Player, Mind

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• We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

  Roy Barnes

  School, College, Names

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