Training Quotes - Page 35

• Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Dancer, Difficult, Hard

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• I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Dancer, Ballet, Fosse

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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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• While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

  George Ryan

  Years, Office, Lawyer

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• We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking - love - feels unnatural and unnatural thinking - fear - feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Thinking, Discipline

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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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• How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form.

  Rod Serling

  Meaningful, Art, Drama

  "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.

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• Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Special, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.16, Advaita Ashrama

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• The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot.

  Pappy Boyington

  Air, Effort, Battle

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• That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Kids, Opportunity

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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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• Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.

  Don Mattingly

  Spring, Consistency, Want

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• Just as full sunlight completely dispels all darkness but even a few rays provide a measure of light, so, if we complete the practice of training the mind, we will totally dispel the darkness of our ignorance, but if we engage in only some parts of the practice, this will still help to reduce our ignorance and self-cherishing .

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Ignorance, Light, Self

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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 little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

  Michael Chabon

  Life, Mother, Boys

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• I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Running, Thinking, Body

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

  Vanessa Mae

  Winter, Two, Russia

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• But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that

  Richard Krajicek

  Jobs, Mean, Player

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• One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Healing, Health

  Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Deepak Chopra (2012). “Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being”, p.16, Harmony

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