“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsArtEnjoyDecisionWatchesTrainingCarefulThoughtfulMartial ArtsMixed Martial Arts Author:Akshay Kumar
“It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.” IfsThinkingLifeGivingDoeImportantWould BeScienceFreedomStudyWonderfulDependsEssentialsTrainingImportancePrejudiceImportant ThingsPhysicsExperimentsLogicalAccurateThings In LifePreciseHypothesisDogmaticLogical ThinkingFraming Author:Anthony Standen
“When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people. You don't have the problem of discovering a backstory with real people, but there's always a mystery which is common to both fictional and factual characters. They are never quite the person you think they are.” PeopleThinkingPersonsRealCharacterProblemBigsActorsCommonMysteryTrainingTreatsDiscoveringNever QuitFactualFictional Character Author:Toby Jones
“There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when I was a kid? I decided to create a book for girls like me. The Littlest Bigfoot is about bullying and body image and girls who don't fit in. It's like training wheels for my adult books - like Sex and the City, but with 12-year-olds.” ThinkingYearsBookBodyKidsGirlSexCitiesFitTrainingAdultsDecidedLike MeWheelsBullyingBody ImageBigfootSex And The CityTraining Wheels Author:Jennifer Weiner
“[Police chiefs ] want support, they want more training, they want more assistance. And I think the federal government could be in a position where we would offer and provide that.” ThinkingWantGovernmentSupportPositionOffersTrainingPoliceChiefsFederal GovernmentAssistance Author:Hillary Clinton
“I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.” ThinkingKnowsWayKindInterestPoetTrainingContemporaryVisualsImagery Author:Martha Ronk
“People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training.” PeopleThinkingSportsMovementBalanceTrainingInstinctAnimalistic Author:Conor McGregor
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsPhilosophyHelpingHappensCommunityPerfectTeachingPeriodsFitTrainingLaysEverydayBuddhistStrictEveryday LifeDharmaMonastic LifeBuddhist Philosophy Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to start a training center for nuns. I agreed because I think it's really very important for the Western Sangha. I don't know how I'm going to help, but it's important.” ThinkingKnowsWantImportantHelpingMy OwnKnow HowProjectsTrainingWesternMy TimeRetreatNunAmazementSangha Author:Tenzin Palmo
“What will be interesting to see is whether or not we see from the [Donald Trump] administration initiatives on higher education for this work force, because if those kinds of training opportunities are not provided, then I do think this program begins to look like a defensive holding action, a rear-guard action, buying time for workers who might not otherwise find positions in the 21st century.” IfsThinkingLooksKindMightActionOpportunityForceInterestingCenturyPositionTrumpHigherTrainingProgramWorkersAdministrationBuyingInitiative21st CenturyHigher Education Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think the same around the world. At 350.org we just trained 500 young people from around the world in Istanbul for a few weeks. We had 5000 applications from young people who wanted to be part of the training. There's real hunger out there.” PeopleThinkingWorldRealWantedYoungWeekTrainingHungerAround The WorldApplicationIstanbul Author:Bill McKibben
“I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized.” ThinkingLittlesDifferentAbleSpiritualPerspectiveTrainingDifferent Perspective Author:Leonard Cohen
“I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs.” ThinkingShouldHeartCultureReligiousJourneyTrainingInstitutionsEducationalPreparingCagesRibs Author:Leonard Cohen
“I think training is helpful, but so is living a well-rounded life full of different experiences.” ThinkingWellsDifferentTrainingHelpfulDifferent ExperiencesWell Rounded Author:Cynthia Addai-Robinson
“I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.” ThinkingLanguageTakenShareDegreesTrainingAll ThingsEngineeringElectronics Author:Murray Bookchin
“Of course, the whole photographic process has been made much faster, cleaner and far more accessible to people by digital innovations, which is really great. Everybody now has a camera, often as part of our phone, and most of these cameras require little to no technical training. An enormous variety of apps also enable us to take short cuts to finished images. We hardly need to even think anymore.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLittlesHas BeensMadeWholeCoursesProcessCuttingTrainingInnovationCamerasPhonesFinishedEnormousVarietyFasterDigitalReally GreatCleanersAppsShort CutsTechnical Training Author:Michael Kenna
“I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces.” ThinkingHappensLife IsBlackGrowthSpaceMovementTrainingGreat ThingsBlack Lives Author:Eugene Puryear
“The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis.” PeopleThinkingGivingDifferentCircumstancesMajorsTrainingCrisisCreditCampaignsSignificantEnterpriseMidstExecutivesGood Sense Author:Barack Obama
“I have had to fight every single style coming up on my way to get here I wasn't fed anyone in any point of my career. I fought every style you could think of - righty, lefty, tall, short, power-puncher, fast guys, counter guys, so for me it is the norm - training for guys with different styles.” ThinkingWayDifferentGuyFightingCareersStyleTrainingMy WayFedsTallNormDifferent StylesLefties Author:Chris Algieri
“If I can think of anything, but nothing specific that I have learned, is the time management and discipline and stay focused. Mentally focused to be aware. Our training sessions are mentally packed. We work on very specific game plans and strategies.” IfsThinkingI CanGamesPlansDisciplineTrainingManagementStrategyFocusedTime ManagementI Have LearnedSessionStay FocusedGame Plan Author:Chris Algieri
“The only thing I'd like to see is to give fighters an option to wear a small headguard, a one-ounce headguard. Some fighters might not want that option. But you know - you're training all the time, you're boxing all the time, and you've got a headguard on, you're using big gloves, and you're getting hit. And you observe that your face is better protected that way. Now they're doing it with ten-ounce gloves and no headguard. I think if they have a one-ounce headguard on to protect some of those brain cells in the head, it would be beneficial to the fighter.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantGivingBigsMightWould BeFacesBrainProtectTenTrainingFighterCellsBoxingYour FaceProtectedBeneficialGlovesBrain Cells Author:Larry Holmes
“I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.” ThinkingPastNaturalAbilityLeaderTheoryTrainingManagementExposureGreat LeaderNatural Ability Author:Colin Powell
“Hilda Reiss was the head of the Everyday Art Gallery. Hilda Reiss came from Germany, had trained at the original Bauhaus in Germany, and her training inspired her to think of anything that she liked as art.” ThinkingArtTrainingOriginalsInspiredEverydayGermanyGalleryArt Galleries Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I'm training at everything. Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, striking. Everything. I think to be in the UFC, you have to be well rounded at everything. That's the goal.” ThinkingWellsGoalTrainingWrestlingUfcWell RoundedJiu Jitsu Author:CM Punk
“There are so many different ways to talk and think about art. We just spoke about when attitude becomes form. But when I was a kid, I had these two art teachers, a couple, who were continuing a line of very classical, atelier art training, and they instilled in me a sensitivity to all the classical verities of line, shape, color, texture, and composition, which is only engaging if you're making two-dimensional objects.” ThinkingArtDifferentKidsAttitudeTeacherCoupleTrainingCompositionSensitivity Author:David Salle
“I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.” ThinkingKidsReligiousTreeTrainingOur Family Author:Jonathan Raymond
“I think that one of the greatest challenges we have today is around education. One of the things that is dividing us more and more is whether you have good prospects or you don't. Do you live a neighborhood where the schools are good? If you don't, your kids may not read until the time they're in third grade. Do you at least have access to a community college that will give you job training skills so that if you don't go for four years you will at least come out with a decent job and a decent wage. Too many people don't have that opportunity.” PeopleThinkingGivingKidsTodaySchoolOpportunityCommunityChallengesCollegeTrainingDecentNeighborhoodCommunity College Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I think that many managers we meet do take their roles as leaders very seriously and do a lot for their people. And they try to hone their skills by reading books and attending training. But then again, the number one problem is we get busy. We tend to forget that collectively we can accomplish more than we could ever do alone, and we need our people to feel a part of a positive, productive culture.” PeopleThinkingTryingBookProblemCultureReadingForgetLeaderTrainingBusyAccomplishProductiveReading Books Author:Adrian Gostick
“Most people would think that I don't like Floyd Mayweather, but I like Floyd. He understood on how to keep winning, I don't care what anyone says, he kept the passion in his boxing and in his training to win. A lot of people lose that. They get the money and they don't want to train and Mayweather trained the same as when he had no money and persisted to win.” PeopleThinkingCarePassionWinningTrainingTrainBoxingNo Money Author:Ann Wolfe
“What people don't realize I have put 160 kids through school. I had a gym full of children. Some of those kids slept in the gym. Some of those kids lived in the gyms. I went to those kids schools. I think with the training, I can't make a fighter have that passion that I have, and it takes years to develop a fighter.” PeopleThinkingChildrenKidsSchoolPassionRealizingTrainingFighterGym Author:Ann Wolfe
“I think the best value to leaders is understanding the generations for the purpose of integrating a younger workforce and transferring knowledge from an experienced workforce. I also think smaller companies may not have the resources for management training or recruiting and therefore there is not a lot of margin for error.” ThinkingPurposeValuesUnderstandingLeaderTrainingManagementIntegrating Author:Chip Espinoza
“Reform, prosperity, and peace, these are major challenges to the United States of America. I don't think I need any on-the-job training. I'm ready to go at it right now.” ThinkingChallengesTrainingProsperity Author:John McCain
“I've seen up close the benefits and drawbacks of kids working with super-strong chess programs in their training, and they definitely think differently than past generations thanks to this alien influence. While we are making our machines more intelligent, they are also changing how we think.” ThinkingKidsPastInfluenceTrainingProgramIntelligentChessThanksAliens Author:Garry Kasparov
“I voted against the war in Iraq. I voted against the first Gulf War. I think war is the last resort - the last option of a great military power like us. I think that we need to focus on building coalitions. Yes, ISIS must be destroyed. But it should be destroyed by a coalition of Muslim nations on the ground with the support of the United States and the other major powers in the air and in training the troops there.” ThinkingWarSupportFocusMilitaryBuildingTrainingGulf War Author:Bernie Sanders
“What people don't understand about making a film is sometimes your experience on the film shapes who you are. You're gone to another country for five months, maybe more, there's training leading up to it... It's a whole life experience that people don't see because they just see the final product wrapped up in a couple hours. You don't see everything that happens around it. I think it's hard to say one movie or one thing; I think they all shape who you are.” PeopleThinkingCountrySometimesFilmHoursCoupleTrainingWho You AreWhole LifeLife Experience Author:Scott Eastwood
“I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I got older I became more of an urban person. That's really when I started to become more of a creative person who was interested in fine arts, painting, drawing, and music. I studied jazz for a long time. Looking back, all those things were great training.” ThinkingLongArtDifferentCountryCreativePaintingTrainingJazzLooking BackUrbanFine Arts Author:Reed Krakoff
“I think improv training really orients you to character development, more than taking a Strasberg class or Meisner class. Not only is it about developing character really quickly, but it's also about being a good partner in the scene.” ThinkingCharacterSceneTrainingCharacter Development Author:Michael Shannon
“There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you become attuned to what art does through materiality and so you begin to look to that in contemporary art as well. And anyway, I do think that matching one's experience with what you're looking at and questioning what you're looking inevitably involves materiality, just like it involves the sense of place.” PeopleThinkingArtTrainingQuestioningArt History Author:Laura Belem
“Well, I think that when you think about the challenges we face, these are challenges that require us to look forward and not backwards. When it comes to the economy I think we have to recognize that we are now in a global economy. And that the measure of our success is: how well are we training our workers? How well are we investing in the new energy economy?” ThinkingEnergyChallengesEconomyTrainingBackwardsGlobal Economy Author:Barack Obama
“I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.” PeopleThinkingTrainingProgramNew Car Author:Douglas Holtz-Eakin
“You have the management team, coaching staff, film staff, analytics team, training staff and playing team, and you're trying to manage all that and it's overwhelming. And then you have the media responsibilities. I don't know that I help at all, but I would think my value would be to help provide more of a clear-headed view from the outside. It's not like I have huge opinions, but I do have my point of view and perspective.” ThinkingTryingHelpingFilmValuesResponsibilityOpinionTeamPerspectiveTrainingManagementPoint Of ViewManageCoachingOverwhelming Author:Steve Nash
“Once you get in the ring and fight you are not even thinking about 'Oh it's going to be too early for me.' It's in the morning, but to me, I'm just ready to fight, to get It on. To show the world what I can do when I'm in top shape having the best training camp ever and when I come in mentally and physically ready to show everybody what they can expect from me.” ThinkingWorldFightingMorningTrainingRings Author:Brandon Rios
“The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to teach citizens how to think better, how to think critically, how to tell truth from falsehood, how to make a judgment about when they're being lied to and duped and when they're not, how to evaluate scientific teaching. Losing that training of citizens is an extremely dangerous road to go down.” ThinkingTeachTeachingDangerousJudgmentLosingTrainingPassionateFalsehoodLiedBeing Lied Author:Joan Wallach Scott
“One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.” ThinkingMenMindMistakeTeachWorstMilitaryTrainingConsequenceEmbarrassmentAstronautFireman Author:David Saint-Jacques
“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.” ThinkingEasyPovertySecurityTaxesTrainingProgramFinancialIncome Tax Author:Sasha Abramsky
“I don't think there's one right way to do anything. There's no one best way to be a woman. There's no best way to be a mentor. I'm just trying to be me and be authentic and live my truth and be as inclusive and interested in other human beings as possible. I'm an actor by training, which means that I study human beings and human behavior. That's what I try to do and what I love to do.” ThinkingTryingMeanStudyBehaviorTrainingMentorHuman Behavior Author:Elizabeth Banks
“When we think of training ourselves in godliness, we usually think of the traditional spiritual disciplines, but it can also be practical activities like taking a nature walk or listening to music - whatever helps us draw closer to God. God hardwired our brains and bodies in such a way that spiritual training, combined with God's work in us, has the very real effect of making us more attuned to spiritual reality and our true identity in Christ.” ThinkingRealHelpingRealitySpiritualChristBrainIdentityListeningDisciplineTrainingListening To MusicGodliness Author:Kenneth Boa
“Legal training has been quite useful in developing critical thinking. Whether one attains it in mathematics, philosophy or law, an analytic grounding can add great value in defining and confronting complex problems, or laying out a path to implement a vision.” ThinkingPhilosophyProblemValuesVisionPathTrainingMathematicsCritical Thinking Author:James M Strock
“I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.” IfsThinkingGivingChildrenHelpingCommunityCitiesResponsibilityGenerationsSkillsTrainingProgramFoundationEducationalRestaurantsCulinaryGiving BackFuture GenerationDevelopmentalNew SkillsEducational Programs Author:Emeril Lagasse
“I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.” ThinkingYearsDoneFactsWantedLastsNextSportsMistakeChangedMinesTrainingYeahLast YearMoscow Author:Frank Lampard