“It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I'm probably more likely to get into a fight, because I feel more competent, and I know what it's cost me in the past to back down from fights, and I don't want to feel that way.” KnowsWayWantFeelsPastFightingCostTrainingGymCompetent Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.” BodyPastPurposeStepsClassFashionTrainingConsciousBoundsTraditionalBalletTiedExpertiseOld DaysAppreciativeRepetitiveElitistExecuting Author:Shirley MacLaine
“We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well as facilities in the Olympic Village in an intensive and comprehensive way.” WayYearsWellsPastFourTrainingCompetitionOperationsVillageFour YearsFacilityComprehensiveVenues Author:Liu Jingmin
“The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of poorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.” PeopleYearsHas BeensProblemTodayPastChallengesTrainingProgramEducatedEmployeeRapidsStrengtheningWorkforceDeteriorationAmerican BusinessTraining Programs Author:Gregory Balestrero
“We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.” LooksMayMadeWholeAgePastFormVisionDoubtProgressFieldsLimitsTrainingContactRangeNo DoubtHorizonTransitionPeculiarTubes Author:Cargill Gilston Knott