
„Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.“
— George Lucas American film producer 1944
A collection of quotes on the topic of sport, box, training, train.
„Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.“
— George Lucas American film producer 1944
„It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.“
— Anne Lamott Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
„Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training“
— Anna Freud Austrian-British psychoanalyst & essayist 1895 - 1982
„No one should try to live if he has not completed his training as a victim.“
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
„Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come.“
— Paulo Coelho, book Aleph
Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
Aleph (2011)
„I never got a Oscar. I never had an acting lesson. Life was my only training.“
— Barbara Stanwyck American actress 1907 - 1990
op. cit.
„If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.“
— Marianne Williamson American writer 1952
„If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
„Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.“
— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008
Total 1513 quotes training, filter:
— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941
— Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
— Sylvester Stallone American actor, screenwriter, and film director 1946
http://twitter.com/TheSlyStallone/status/27158992333
„Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.“
— Ronnie Coleman American bodybuilder 1964
Herald Sun staff (October 13, 2006) "A good life, naturally", Herald Sun, p. 017.
— Solomon B Taiwo English actor and author 1990
Impact interview (2020)
— Noam Chomsky american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928
Source: Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999, The Common Good (1998)
— Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986
Source: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
Context: From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems — the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.
„Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.“
— Richard Branson English business magnate, investor and philanthropist 1950
„There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.“
— Pelé Brazilian association football player 1940
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Teacher
„If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945
— Anthony Bourdain, book A Cook's Tour
A Cook's Tour (2001)
Source: A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
— Frederick Herzberg American psychologist 1923 - 2000
Source: The motivation to work, 1959, p. 32
— Marcus Garvey Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur 1887 - 1940
1937 interview reported by Joel A. Rogers, "Marcus Garvey," in Negroes of New York series, New York Writers Program, 1939, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
— Milkha Singh Indian track and field athlete 1935
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)
— Henry Dunant, book A Memory of Solferino
Source: A Memory of Solferino (1862), p. 16; As quoted in The Independent, Friday, 22 February 2002 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/change-obsolete-rules-of-warfare-says-bush-envoy-661637.html
— Erwin Rommel German field marshal of World War II 1891 - 1944
Source: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. XI : The Initiative Passes, p. 262.[[Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.]]
Context: The Italian command was, for the most part, not equal to the task of carrying on war in the desert, where the requirement was lightning decision followed by immediate action. The training of the Italian infantryman fell far short of the standard required by modern warfare. … Particularly harmful was the all pervading differentiation between officer and man. While the men had to make shift without field-kitchens, the officers, or many of them, refused adamantly to forgo their several course meals. Many officers, again, considered it unnecessary to put in an appearance during battle and thus set the men an example. All in all, therefore, it was small wonder that the Italian soldier, who incidentally was extraordinarily modest in his needs, developed a feeling of inferiority which accounted for his occasional failure and moments of crisis. There was no foreseeable hope of a change for the better in any of these matters, although many of the bigger men among the Italian officers were making sincere efforts in that direction.
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Teacher
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Teacher
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
— Oswald Mosley British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists 1896 - 1980
Excerpt from Beyond the Pale by Nicholas Mosley.
— Zakir Hussain (politician) 3rd President of India 1897 - 1969
Source: Quest for Truth (1999), pp.32-33.
— Woody Harrelson American actor 1961
Letter that he sent to the Army, against the use of monkeys in chemical attack training exercises; full text in "Woody Harrelson Fights Army Tests on Chimps", in Usnews.com (13 September 2011) https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/09/13/woody-harrelson-fights-army-tests-on-chimps.
— Henri Fayol Developer of Fayolism 1841 - 1925
Source: Henri Fayol addressed his colleagues in the mineral industry, 1900, p. 909
— Lillian Gilbreth American psychologist and industrial engineer 1878 - 1972
Source: Psychology of management, 1914, p. 1-2
— Ludwig von Mises, book Socialism
Part V : The Economics of a Socialist Community, § V : Destructionism, Ch. 33 : The Motive Powers of Destructionism, p. 440 http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msS12.html#V.34.35,Ch.33
Socialism (1922)
— Dugald Stewart Scottish philosopher and mathematician 1753 - 1828
Dugald Stewart; reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 581
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
„There is no such thing as over training. You’re either under eating or under sleeping.“
— Rich Piana American bodybuilder and internet personality 1970 - 2017
— Ronald Fisher English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist 1890 - 1962
Eugenics, academic and practical. Eugenics Review, 27, 95-100, 1935.
The original has ‘to store it as’ inserted before the final words ‘a warehouse’, likely a mistake left from an earlier draft.
1930s
— Christopher McCandless American hiker and explorer 1968 - 1992
Carved into a sheet of plywood inside the "Magic Bus", May 2, 1992
— Malala Yousafzai Pakistani children's education activist 1997
Statements in PBS interview with Margaret Warner (October 11, 2013)
— Joseph Pisani American artist and photographer 1971
Television Interview, Aeschbacher April 4, 2008, Swiss Television SF1
— Sachin Tendulkar A former Indian cricketer from India and one of the greatest cricketers ever seen in the world 1973
— John Horton Conway British mathematician 1937
[Mark Ronan, Symmetry and the Monster: One of the greatest quests of mathematics, http://books.google.com/books?id=wDjD0PowhIwC&pg=PT163, 18 May 2006, Oxford University Press, UK, 978-0-19-157938-7, 163]
— Malvina Reynolds American folk singer 1900 - 1978
Song Morningtown Ride
— Emile Coué French psychologist and pharmacist 1857 - 1926
Source: Autosuggestion : My method (2014), Chapter II. The role of imagination.
— Uri Geller Israeli illusionist 1946
"When Uri met David," Telegraph 12/2001 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/09/11/bablaine11.xml&site=6&page=0
— Galén Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher 129 - 216
Galen, On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato,: PHP III 8.35.1-11 translation: De Lacy, Phillip (1978- 1984) Galen, On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato, Berlin. p. 233; cited in: Christopher Jon Elliott. "Galen, Rome and the Second Sophistic." p. 147-8.
— Wilhelm Keitel German general 1882 - 1946
December 16, 1942. Quoted in "The Second World War: A Complete History" - Page 386 - by Sir Martin Gilbert - History - 2004
— Immanuel Wallerstein economic historian 1930 - 2019
Wallerstein (1974) The modern world system capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world economy in the sixteenth century. New York: Academic Press.
— Mark Knopfler English guitarist 1949
Tunnel of Love, written with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Song lyrics, Making Movies (1980)
— Milkha Singh Indian track and field athlete 1935
Flying Sikh': Indian sprinter Milkha Singh biopic set for release, 12 July 2013, 13 December 2013, BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23241269,
„OK, you trained monkeys, everybody jump up and down. Let's bring back the good old pogo!“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
1993-12-31 at Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, California, in between "About a Girl" and "Lithium".
Stage banter
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Poet, essayist, physician 1809 - 1894
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Context: He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself. Imagine the author of the excellent piece of advice, "Know thyself," never alluding to that sentiment again during the course of a protracted existence! Why, the truths a man carries about with him are his tools; and do you think a carpenter is bound to use the same plane but once to smooth a knotty board with, or to hang up his hammer after it has driven its first nail? I shall never repeat a conversation, but an idea often. I shall use the same types when I like, but not commonly the same stereotypes. A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations.
— Galén Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher 129 - 216
Galen. Margaret Tallmadge May (trans.) On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, Ithaca, New York: Cornell U. Press, 1968. p. 502.
Context: A god, as I have said, commanded me to tell the first use also, and he himself knows that I have shrunk from its obscurity. He knows too that not only here but also in many other places in these commentaries, if it depended on me, I would omit demonstrations requiring astronomy, geometry, music, or any other logical discipline, lest my books should be held in utter detestation by physicians. For truly on countless occasions throughout my life I have had this experience; persons for a time talk pleasantly with me because of my work among the sick, in which they think me very well trained, but when they learn later on that I am also trained in mathematics, they avoid me for the most part and are no longer at all glad to be with me. Accordingly, I am always wary of touching on such subjects, and in this case it is only in obedience to the command of a divinity, as I have said, that I have used the theorems of geometry
— John Locke English philosopher and physician 1632 - 1704
§ 243
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)
Context: The greatest part of mankind want leisure or capacity for demonstration, nor can carry a train of proofs, which in that way they must always depend upon for conviction, and cannot be required to assent to till they see the demonstration. Wherever they stick, the teachers are always put upon proof, and must clear the doubt by a thread of coherent deductions from the first principle, how long or how intricate soever that be. And you may as soon hope to leave all the day labourers and tradesmen, the spinsters and dairy-maids, perfect mathematicians, as to have them perfect in ethics this way: having plain commands is the sure and only course to bring them to obedience and practice: the greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe. And I ask, whether one coming from heaven in the power of God, in full and clear evidence and demonstration of miracles, giving plain and direct rules of morality and obedience, be not likelier to enlighten the bulk of mankind, and set them right in their duties, and bring them to do them, than by reasoning with them from general notions and principles of human reason?
— Jean Cocteau French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker 1889 - 1963
Opium (1929)
— Richard Hamming American mathematician and information theorist 1915 - 1998
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
Context: I am concerned with educating and not training you.... Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to do it. Either one without the other is not of much use. You might think education should precede training, but the kind of educating I am trying to do must be based on your past experiences and technical knowledge.<!-- Preface
— Kalki Krishnamurthy writer 1899 - 1954
Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur (1939)
Context: It is natural for a train to run on its tracks. We get into a train because we believe that it will do that. But once in a while the train runs off the rails, and there’s an accident. Those who don’t actually witness such a happening can say, “No train will run off the rails, it is unnatural for it to do so”.
— Jacque Fresco American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916 - 2017
Designing the Future (2007)
— Brian Andreas American artist 1956
Variant: She waved at all the people on the train & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.
Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
— Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
— Susanna Kaysen, book Girl, Interrupted
Source: Girl, Interrupted
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Gwendolen, Act II
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
— Elias Canetti Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer 1905 - 1994
Source: Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
— Fannie Flagg, book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
„Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
Source: The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
— Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855
Variant: You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life