Training Quotes - Page 38

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.

The poverty we see in America is now too widespread, and too complex, for easy fixes. But I do think we can reimagine many of our institutions and can create new ones in ways that would be effective. We could, for example, create social insurance systems, similar to social security, such as that we went through in 2008-9. We could create a financial transaction tax, oil profit taxes and a fairer estate tax system, and we could plow much of the revenue raised from these into job training programs, into better education infrastructure, into an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit.

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.

As I'm sure you may know, I'm planning to become a spaceflight participant and have been recently approved to begin my spaceflight training by the Russian space federation having passed the necessary medical and physical tests.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble.

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

When I'm not training for a movie, it's more relaxed. I do a lot of running. Usually I'll run four to six miles about three times a week. You try to eat right, but you don't always.

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world's stage and hopefully do the United States proud.

I took my weight training to a new level.

The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

We wouldn't need any job training centers if our education was working in the first place.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.

First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport.

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

We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them.

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.