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Training Quotes - Page 19

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”

Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus.

"Will you still medal in the morning?" by Sam Alipour, www.espn.com. July 8, 2012.

I just spent my whole life training and focused on one thing, I really don't even think about after the fact! It's like, oh yeah, I have to do something after!

"Gabby Douglas and Leslie Jones Are Texting Now, Thanks to #Love4GabbyUSA". Interview with Lindsay Miller, www.popsugar.com. August 22, 2016.

Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.

Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, Mickey Rourke (2012). “Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter”, p.252, Chicago Review Press

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1087, Simon and Schuster

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young (1799). “The poetical works of ... E. Young. With the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.37

Temperance is love in training.

Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.

Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.75, Rodale

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Bernard Berenson (1968). “Venetian and North Italian Schools”

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.91, Institute of GS