Training Quotes - Page 26

• To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Navy, Way, Break

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• Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save you so that you could cruise into paradise on a luxury liner; He saved
  you to prepare you to be of use in His kingdom. The moment you were born again, He enrolled you in His school of suffering. And every affliction, every trial, is another lesson in the curriculum.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, School, Exercise

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• There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Art, Prayer, Way

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.260, Macmillan

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• Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve
  whatever our goals and dreams define. What is different
  for each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Goal, Different

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• Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Mean

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• The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Art, Years, Practice

  Lafcadio Hearn (2005). “Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Crazy, Men, Years

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• Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities. New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Men, Perfection, Humanity

  "Foundations of World Unity". Book by Abdu'l-Bahá, reference.bahai.org. 1945.

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• The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.

  Brice Marden

  Pain, Thinking, Chance

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• The last start of spring training, my (cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I tried to work on making it cut more and do more. I think that set (the forearm) off ... trying to make it move a lot, cut a lot. I'm just going to back off and trust it a little bit more and not try and push that.

  Roy Halladay

  Spring, Moving, Cutting

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• I feel as good now as I have any other spring training.

  Roy Halladay

  Spring, Feels, Spring Training

  Interview with David Murphy, www.philly.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves only to hinder our normal functioning, like those bags of sand athletes tie around their calves for training.

  Juan Gabriel

  Athlete, Exercise, Dedication

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• There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.

  Kano Jigoro

  Self, People, Energy

  "Kodokan Judo : The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 23, 1994.

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• Although it is important to study and train for skill in techniques, for the man who wishes to truly accomplish the way of budo, it is important to makehis whole life in training and therefore not aiming for skill and strength alone, but also for spiritual attainment.

  Mas Oyama

  Spiritual, Men, Skills

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• One living daily in the Way carries their head low and their eyes high; reserved in speech and possessing a kind heart, they steadfastly continue in their training efforts.

  Mas Oyama

  Heart, Eye, Effort

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• If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

  Mas Oyama

  Sleep, Answers, Maximum

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• Until the day I die, I never want to be separated from my dogi; I never want to cease my training efforts in the dojo.

  Mas Oyama

  Effort, Dojo, Want

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• Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body.

  Mas Oyama

  Strong, Self, Body

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• Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.

  Mas Oyama

  Sports, Fashion, Ideas

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• Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.

  Mas Oyama

  Technique, Body, Way

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• As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi.

  Mitsugi Saotome

  Lying, Keys, Creative

  Mitsugi Saotome (1989). “The Principles of Aikido”, Shambhala Publications

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• Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.

  Alois Podhajsky

  Teacher, Horse, Art

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• Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Feelings, Trying

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• Whenever a horse has learned a new movement or a new aid in its basic form, the rider should give him a break and deliberately ride something else for a few days or weeks. When he returns to the movement, he will notice how much more easily the training will proceed.

  Reiner Klimke

  Horse, Giving, Movement

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• Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

  Pen Densham

  Writing, Voice, Artistic

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