597 Quotes About Training

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.

A leader in 10 minutes can unlock your potentials which in reality would have taken you 10 years to do without them.

Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand.

Have a clear-cut plan on what you wish to improve, and seek opportunities to improve it. The more conscious and honest we can be about our shortcomings, the more strength we will have to improve them. We are going to train hard anyway, we are not going to sweat any more or less. It is simply imperative that the sweat is properly directed.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. (1930)

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.

Vague statements are interchangeable.