“We all see only that which we are trained to see.”

“Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it…. Someone just ripped off my eyelids.”

“We are shocked when we see educators, timid before criticism and confused about first principles, betray their trust. And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.”

“If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.”

“We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”

“The artist's main business is to train his eye to see, then to probe and then to train his hand to work in sympathy with his eye. I have a habit of looking, and really seeing.”

“Train your mind to see the good in every situation.”

“And in the present we are all irremediably the products of our background, our training, our personality and social role, and the structured pressures within which we operate.”

“They are trained to see relationships between things that may seem different.”

“People only see the money and cars, and they never saw the hard work or days I was pissing blood because I got hurt training.”