All Quotes By Tag: Training
“Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one.”
“If need be get all the necessary training”
“You have to get all the training necessary and come up with something that can only be compared to the best in the world”
“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”
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“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is … curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got that or not.[Press conference, University of Virginia, May 20, 1957]”
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“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.”
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“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”
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“If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It’s no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.”
“One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer ‘no’ time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent – among them he finds his stage.”
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“So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
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“Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.”
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“If you convert your time into training, you will be wise”
“The parent is protector and trainer, but never the ultimate teacher. Every parent is responsible for teaching their kid basic moral conduct, manners, the difference between love and hate, and right from wrong. However, after maturity, the child must set off to seek knowledge on their own. Religion is never to be forced. And you cannot threaten your child with hell and tell them your religion is the only right way. There is no one right way. The many ways to the Creator are as varied as the colors of a rainbow.”
“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.”
“Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.”
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