Best training & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.”

Needs Firsts Night Bits Training Colour Canvas

Author:Ron Moody

“From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.”

Years Firsts Dad Training University My Dad Credit Intense Championship Tennessee Ncaa Intense Training

Author:Candace Parker

“Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.”

Firsts Guy Fall Girl Roles Military Training Prepared Falling In Love Soldier Excellent Transsexuals Juilliard

Author:Lee Pace

“A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.”

Years Firsts Play Games Laughing Alive Tears Baby Training My Sister I Smile Smile And Laugh

Author:Ali Smith

“The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying "Destiny." For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.”

Firsts Reason Character Destiny Seeing Training First Time Machines Athlete Chinese Village Visa Olympic Athlete Atm Atm Machines

Author:Nastia Liukin

“Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.”

Firsts Steps Training Speed Republic First Steps Equipment Athletic Protocol

Author:Darren McFadden

“Invest in yourself. It's like being a boxer, you've got to be in training so that when the bell rings, you get your direction you come out of the corner and you're *ready*. Do not let the audition be the first thing you've done in six months.”

Firsts Done Ready Months Six Training Corners Rings Bells Auditions Six Months Boxers Invest In Yourself

Author:Karl Urban

“I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.”

Firsts Has Beens Remember Gone Months Training Murder Absolutes Coaches Camps Nuts Marine July Wwii Crow Pacific Drills Instructors Training Camp Colts Basic Training

Author:Art Donovan

“First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.”

Firsts Believe Humans Wells Persons I Can Two Enough Can Do Human Beings Fronts Tomorrow Training Legs Believe In Yourself I Can Do It Belive Just Believe In Yourself

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.”

Way Giving Writing Years Firsts Mean Different Wanted Form Masters Exercise Pages Training Very Good Damn Things To Do Verses Compelled Walt Ballads Days Of The Year Free Verse

Author:Conrad Aiken

“Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.”

Firsts Humans Important Character Home School Human Beings Moral Principles Worst Training Endure Cease Manhood

Book:Character

Source: Character

“We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.”

Men Firsts Children Stills Training Fascism Fascists

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not be stifled or concealed; second, that there is no ground for the view that Christianity is the only alternative to communism, or that there can be no sound character training that is not based on religion; and, third, I want to make some practical suggestions to the parents who are not believers, on what they should tell the children about God, and what sort of moral training they should give them.”

“Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.”

World Firsts Persons Book Action Reading Understanding Steps Scene Empathy Training Roots First Steps Not Alone Understanding You

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.”

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.”

Firsts Training Shoes Athlete Standpoint Signatures Adidas

Author:Keyshawn Johnson

“Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey.”

Way Want Firsts Looks Roles Shapes Training Down And What You Want Diets New Ways Ripped Slim Getting In Shape

Author:Scott Adkins

“Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.”

Needs Firsts Jobs Military Training Defense Department Assault Sexual Assault Better Jobs

Author:Louise Slaughter

“I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.”

Firsts Made Enough Acting New York Training Formal Kenneth

Author:June Squibb

“My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.”

Writing Years Firsts Art Five Six Training Disappointment Alternatives Right Direction

Author:Laurence Housman

“The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.”

“I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Jobs Young Bits Mistake Training Errors Stuck Trials Hopefully Managers Chef Keep Trying Trial And Error Job Training

Author:April Bloomfield

“It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'”

Thinking Firsts Looks Bigs School Used Hours Company Saws Training First Time Flight Aviation Chicago Mickey After Hours Cockpit Learn To Fly

Author:Ernest K. Gann

“I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.”

Knows Firsts Type Basketball Training Significance

Author:Dirk Nowitzki

“Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.”

Firsts Wells Littles Two Done Helping Home Action Three Stars Stuff Bits Focus Months Periods Fit Little Bit Training Coming Home Recalls Gymnastics Three Months Underworld Total Recall

Author:Colin Farrell

“I guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills.”

Firsts Running Training Weight Hills Lifts Sand Circuits Circuit Training

Author:Margaret Court

“I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana. There's a reason Montana produces more SEALs than any other state. As a collegiate athlete, I enjoyed the mental and physical challenges Division I football presented. When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.”

Firsts Country States Reason Whole Challenges Growing Up Growing Produce Football Fit Demand Training Athlete Whole Life Enjoyed Division Navy Seals Montana Navy Seal

Author:Ryan Zinke

“The first day of training in Big Bear, it felt like somebody put a plastic bag over my head. After eight weeks up there, I feel very strong.”

Feels Firsts Bigs Strong Felt Week Bears Training Eight Bags Very Strong Plastic Plastic Bags

Author:Tavoris Cloud

“Europe has become the first line of defense for the United States. It has become a training ground for terrorists.”

Firsts States Lines United United States Training Europe Defense Terrorist

Author:Tyler Drumheller

“Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.”

Firsts Action Practice Virtue Depends Training

Author:Seneca the Younger

“You don't realize how long that NFL season is. It's a long season, especially in your first year. Not only do you spend a lot of time preparing for the draft and working out, but they you have OTAs, minicamps, training camp, preseason games. By the time you get to week six you've already had one of the longest years of your football life and you still have 11 weeks to go, plus the playoffs.”

Years Firsts Long Stills Games Realizing Week Football Six Training Seasons Work Out Nfl Plus Camps Preparing Playoffs Hey You Training Camp

Author:Giovani Bernard

“My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my good friends at the Hachette Book Group have encouraged me to share the next phase of my life, beginning with my arrival in Hollywood and the wonderful movies and television programs I was asked to be a part of.”

Life Years Firsts Book Home Next Wonderful Groups Share Childhood Television Training Program Hollywood Theater Memoir Phases Good Friend Arrivals Formative Years

Author:Julie Andrews

“I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I'm usually one of the first out there on the dance floor. Although I haven't had any formal dance training and something tells me I'm really going to notice the difference.”

Firsts Differences Havens Training Formal Dance Floor Boogie

Author:Ainsley Harriott

“My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant stage manager and they told me to clear out the prop store. I opened it up and no-one had been in there for 25 years and it was inches deep in rat sh*t. So before I could get anywhere I had to clear it up. I thought, 'All these years of training, the best drama school in the world, and this is what I'm doing.'”

World Years Firsts School Jobs Company Clear Stage Drama Training Stores Theatre Managers Inches Rats Assistants Props Stage Managers

Author:Martin Shaw

“Scholes was probably the best English midfielder since Bobby Charlton. He was such a brilliant long passer that he could choose a hair on the head of any team-mate answering the call of nature at our training ground. Gary Neville once thought he had found refuge in a bush, but Scholesy found him from 40 yeards. He inflicted a similar long-range missile strike, once, on Peter Schmeichel, and was chased round the training ground for his impertinence. Scholesy would have made a first class-sniper.”

“A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives.”

“One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.”

Men Firsts Art Courses Literature Language Felt Study Wonderful Events Training Filled Meetings Accomplished Amazement Great Events Wonderful Man Literature And Art

Author:Nikola Tesla

“You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.”

People Firsts Fighting Military Ready Battle Majors Training Organization Soldier Officers Catastrophe Instill Without Trust Military Training

Book:Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices

“The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.”

Firsts Steps Practice Training Recognition First Steps

Author:Dogen

“Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training”

Firsts Home School Quality Teacher Training Fixed Examination Curriculum Quality Control Teacher Training

Book:The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist

Source: The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist

“The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.”

Knows Firsts Wells School Responsibility Industry Training Function Assuming Preparation Taking Responsibility Absolutely Nothing

Author:Peter Drucker

“We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.”

People Way Firsts Technology Generations Months Six Training Percent Meaningful Six Months New Technology New Generation Refinery Welding

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“McLeod's Daughters was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera. I learned a lot of technical aspects that you take for granted once you know them, but you have to learn them somewhere, along the way. It was a bit of a training ground for me, working in front of the camera and also dealing with media.”

Knows Way Firsts School Jobs Bits Term Roles Media Fronts Drama Training Daughter Aspect Cameras Granted

Author:Dustin Clare

“When I first heard the term 'training bra,' I was freaked out. I was pretty young and I said, 'Did you just say training bra? They're training their chests? I had no idea.' See some lady, her boobs are everywhere. 'What's her deal?' Those are untrained titties.”

Firsts Said Ideas Young Term Deals Heard Training No Idea Chests Bras

Author:Demetri Martin

“Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.”

Firsts Art Clear Musician Singing Training

Author:Garth Greenwell

“Watch and enjoy Mixed Martial Arts, and if some people are thinking about doing it, they must be very careful and think about enrolling in training first, they must make a thoughtful decision before actually doing it.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Art Enjoy Decision Watches Training Careful Thoughtful Martial Arts Mixed Martial Arts

Author:Akshay Kumar

“I would say auditioning was my real training ground. The technical aspects - like hitting marks and pacing yourself and preparing and dealing with the downtime - the first recurring role I had on 24 was probably the way I learned that stuff.”

Way Firsts Real Stuff Roles Training Aspect Mark Hitting Preparing Recurring Pacing Downtime

Author:Zachary Quinto

“I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this time they would learn basic Buddhist philosophy in a monastic community where all the teaching and training was directed toward living a perfect monastic life and wasn't channeled out to fit into the lay life - which is what usually happens in Dharma centers where the teachings are directed toward how to live the Dharma in your everyday life.”

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