Quotes about weight training and exercise

A collection of quotes on the topic of sport, box, training, train.

Best quotes about weight training and exercise

„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

„Life is a train, get on board.“

— Khaled Hosseini, book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

„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

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„The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.“

— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941

Men, Secret, Success

„Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.“

— Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

Education

„Remember the mind is your best muscle …BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains… Ride the brain train for success….“

— Sylvester Stallone American actor, screenwriter, and film director 1946

http://twitter.com/TheSlyStallone/status/27158992333

Mountain, Success

„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.

Secret

„The character plays you, and this really resonates with me because I am not professionally trained, I’m more of ‘an in the moment’ actor.“

— Solomon B Taiwo English actor and author 1990

Impact interview (2020)

„Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

„The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.“

— Noam Chomsky american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928

Source: Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999, The Common Good (1998)

People, Way, Thinking, Sense

„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.“

— 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.

School, Problem, Learning, Reading

„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

People

„There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.“

— Pelé Brazilian association football player 1940

„Teachers should be able to help learners to efficiently communicate to other numerical ideas and to make connection with real-life problems in the areas chosen for their eventual career. Training only on subject matter is definitely not going to bring about this expertise. There must be more emphasis on coaching and facilitating techniques. In their normal practices, teachers must see very clearly where each individual learner stands on the learning continuum of that particular development, what problems and difficulties he or she is going to face and what lies ahead on that learning continuum to be walked by the learner. Teachers should be trained to be a master of how to help each and every learn to walk through the learning task. Going through the learning task is a necessary and essential aspect of teacher training but it is not sufficient to make them good and effective teachers.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

Help, Learning, Communication, Teachers

„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

Depressing

„I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.“

— Haruki Murakami, book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase

Life, Way, Parting

„The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.“

— Anthony Bourdain, book A Cook's Tour

A Cook's Tour (2001)
Source: A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

Parting

„I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.“

— Toni Morrison American writer 1931 - 2019

Game

„A sample limited to one profession would have yielded results of doubtful generality. To develop findings independent of the peculiar circumstances of the engineer, we needed to study a comparable group. Accountants were chosen because their jobs, like those of engineers,· are rich in technique. This richness makes it likely that the accountant, like the engineer, would have much to tell us. However, the groups are vastly different in the nature of their training, their present degree of professionalization, the kind of work they do, and, presumably, the kind of people attracted into them. Last, by covering accountants and engineers, we examined the job attitudes of two of the most important staff groups in modern industry“

— Frederick Herzberg American psychologist 1923 - 2000

Source: The motivation to work, 1959, p. 32

People, Nature, Study

„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.“

— 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.

Men, Children

„Sprinting from one shady patch to another to escape the blistering heat of the sun on my journey to school
Felling the massacre on that fearsome night when most of my family was slaughtered
racing trains for fun
outrunning the police when I was caught stealing in Shahdra
leaving every one behind in my first race as an army jawan so that I could get an extra glass of milk
surging past my competitors in Tokyo when I was declared Asia’s best athlete
Running in Pakistan and being hailed as "The Flying Sikh."“

— Milkha Singh Indian track and field athlete 1935

The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)

School, Family, Sun, Past

„I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings.“

— 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

Parting, Personality

„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.“

— 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.

War, Decision, Parting

„Teachers need to be trained on how children learn, not only how to solve mathematical problems. They must know how to make learners well understand the New Math and enable them to solve mathematical problems.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

Understanding, Children, Learning, Teachers

„To make teachers more reflective, a series of self-assessment sessions have to be conducted, beginning with an analysis of the learners, or the students. Teachers have to be trained or retrained on how to make their teaching more effective and successful.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

Success, Teachers, Self-confidence, Making love

„My parents took my ambitions seriously. They took an hour each way to training. They were waiting for me, and when I wanted to go home alone, I took the bus from Warsaw to Leszno for two hours. When I was late, I had to seize an opportunity, sometimes someone took pity and took me away.“

— Robert Lewandowski Polish association football player 1988

Home, Waiting, Way, Parent

„Going beyond good and evil is training to start loving the things you hated and trying to hate the things you loved so much for no reason.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Hate, Love, Evil

„Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.“

— Joanne Harris, book Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

Source: Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

People, Waiting

„Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.“

— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

Feeling, Imagination

„I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!“

— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

Imagination, Fight

„Don't ask me silly questions
I won't play silly games
I'm just a simple choo choo train
And I'll always be the same.

I only want to race along
Beneath the bright blue sky
And be a happy choo choo train
Until the day I die.“

— Stephen King, book The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Waste Lands

Game, Question, Happiness

„Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.“

— Anna Quindlen journalist, Novelist 1952

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

Books, Home

„I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.“

— Tamora Pierce, book Terrier

Source: Terrier

Dogs, Way, Time

„…the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.“

— Oswald Mosley British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists 1896 - 1980

Excerpt from Beyond the Pale by Nicholas Mosley.

Men

„Such an environment of love and affection (at school) had not as yet allowed my life to be exposed to hardships. Depending on others was my habit. You will be surprised to know that prior to my journey to the college I had never bought a train-ticket myself…the very first day I realized that moving out of the controlled school life and stepping into the free college life is no less than inviting all sorts of hassles to yourself. Nobody tells you how to read. Nobody tells you what to do, where to go, when to sleep, and when to wake up. The one who is used to restrictions gets perturbed by this freedom.“

— Zakir Hussain (politician) 3rd President of India 1897 - 1969

Source: Quest for Truth (1999), pp.32-33.

Love, Life, School, Sleep

„Welcome baby,
It's your turn to live,
They lie in wait for you, chicken pox, whooping cough, smallpox,
Malaria, TB, heart disease, cancer, and so on.
Unemployment, hunger, and so on.
Train wrecks, bus accidents, plane crashes, work accidents,
Earthquakes, floods, droughts, and so on.
Heartbreak, alcoholism, and so on.
Nightsticks, prison doors, and so on.
They lie in wait for you, the atom bomb, and so on.
Welcome baby,
It's your turn to live.
They lie in wait for you, socialism, communism, and so on.“

— Nâzım Hikmet Turkish poet 1902 - 1963

From Welcome (10 September 1961)

Hunger, Alcohol, Lie, Disease

„Because superior non-animal methods are used for this exact training by military and civilian programs around the world, animals are clearly not required to meet your objectives. … I'm sure you agree that our military personnel deserve state-of-the-art training and that our country deserves to be respected for its civilized treatment of animals.“

— 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.

World, Art, Animals, Country

„I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.“

— Aaliyah American singer, actress and model 1979 - 2001

Attributed

Life, Singing, Dance

„In my opinion, it is the industry concerned which should have the chief say in the question of the amount of theoretical training required. It is the industry which uses the products of the schools, and, like every consumer, it has the right to make its wishes known.“

— Henri Fayol Developer of Fayolism 1841 - 1925

Source: Henri Fayol addressed his colleagues in the mineral industry, 1900, p. 909

School, Question

„… what is there in the subject of psychology to demand the attention of the manager?
Psychology, in the popular phrase, is " the study of the mind." It has for years been included in the training of all teachers, and has been one of the first steps for the student of philosophy; but it has not, usually, been included among the studies of the young scientific or engineering student, or of any students in other lines than Philosophy and Education. This, not because its value as a " culture subject " was not understood, but because the course of the average student is so crowded with technical preparation necessary to his life work, and because the practical value of psychology has not been recognized. It is well recognized that the teacher must understand the working of the mind in order best to impart his information in that way that will enable the student to grasp it most readily. It was not recognized that every man going out into the world needs all the knowledge that he can get as to the working of the human mind in order not only to give but to receive information with the least waste and expenditure of energy, nor was it recognized that in the industrial, as well as the academic world, almost every man is a teacher.“

— Lillian Gilbreth American psychologist and industrial engineer 1878 - 1972

Source: Psychology of management, 1914, p. 1-2

Life, World, Education, Way

„Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.“

— 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)

People

„Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, moulds the man.“

— 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

„It costs a lot to fight this war. We have spent more than a billion dollars a month — over $30 million a day — and we must be prepared for future operations. Afghanistan proved that expensive precision weapons defeat the enemy and spare innocent lives, and we need more of them. We need to replace aging aircraft and make our military more agile, to put our troops anywhere in the world quickly and safely. Our men and women in uniform deserve the best weapons, the best equipment, the best training — and they also deserve another pay raise.“

— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946

2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)

Women, Men, War, Age

„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

Sleep

„In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research. By temperament and training, the research worker is the antithesis of the pundit. What he is actively and constantly aware of is his ignorance, not his knowledge; the insufficiency of his concepts, of the terms and phrases in which he tries to excogitate his problems: not their final and exhaustive sufficiency. He is, therefore, usually only a good teacher for the few who wish to use their mind as a workshop, rather than a warehouse.“

— 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

Nature, Knowledge, Problem, Teachers

„And now, ladies and gentlemen, that we've enjoyed some good times this evening, and enjoyed some laughter together, I feel it is my obligation to remind you of some of the negative, depressing, dangerous, life-threatening things that life is really all about; things you have not been thinking about tonight, but which will be waiting for you as soon as you leave the theater or as soon as you turn off your television sets. Anal rape, quicksand, body lice, evil spirits, gridlock, acid rain, continental drift, labor violence, flash floods, rabies, torture, bad luck, calcium deficiency, falling rocks, cattle stampedes, bank failure, evil neighbors, killer bees, organ rejection, lynching, toxic waste, unstable dynamite, religious fanatics, prickly heat, price fixing, moral decay, hotel fires, loss of face, stink bombs, bubonic plague, neo-Nazis, friction, cereal weevils, failure of will, chain reaction, soil erosion, mail fraud, dry rot, voodoo curse, broken glass, snake bite, parasites, white slavery, public ridicule, faithless friends, random violence, breach of contract, family scandals, charlatans, transverse myelitis, structural defects, race riots, sunspots, rogue elephants, wax buildup, killer frost, jealous coworkers, root canals, metal fatigue, corporal punishment, sneak attacks, peer pressure, vigilantes, birth defects, false advertising, ungrateful children, financial ruin, mildew, loss of privileges, bad drugs, ill-fitting shoes, widespread chaos, Lou Gehrig's disease, stray bullets, runaway trains, chemical spills, locusts, airline food, shipwrecks, prowlers, bathtub accidents, faulty merchandise, terrorism, discrimination, wrongful cremation, carbon deposits, beef tapeworm, taxation without representation, escaped maniacs, sunburn, abandonment, threatening letters, entropy, nine-mile fever, poor workmanship, absentee landlords, solitary confinement, depletion of the ozone layer, unworthiness, intestinal bleeding, defrocked priests, loss of equilibrium, disgruntled employees, global warming, card sharks, poisoned meat, nuclear accidents, broken promises, contamination of the water supply, obscene phone calls, nuclear winter, wayward girls, mutual assured destruction, rampaging moose, the greenhouse effect, cluster headaches, social isolation, Dutch elm disease, the contraction of the universe, paper cuts, eternal damnation, the wrath of God, and PARANOIAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!“

— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008

Playing With Your Head (1986)

Life, God, Bad luck, Children

„Two Years He Walks The Earth. No Phone, No Pool, No Pets, No Cigarettes. Ultimate Freedom. An Extremist. An Aesthetic Voyager Whose Home Is The Road. Escaped From Atlanta. Thou Shalt Not Return, Cause "The West Is The Best." And Now After Two Rambling Years Comes The Final And Greatest Adventure. The Climactic Battle To Kill The False Being Within And Victoriously Conclude The Spiritual Revolution! Ten Days + Nights Of Freight Trains And Hitchhiking Bring Him To The Great White North. No Longer To Be Poisoned By Civilization He Flees, And Walks Alone Upon The Land To Become Lost In The Wild [double underline under "Wild"]. Alexander Supertramp May 1992.“

— Christopher McCandless American hiker and explorer 1968 - 1992

Carved into a sheet of plywood inside the "Magic Bus", May 2, 1992

Home, Freedom, Victory, Falseness

„I think I have more plans for my future from now and I think we must start work for a campaign now so we have set up a Malala foundation. And through Malala fund we are going to educate girls and we want to do work on the ground: building schools, teachers, training, trying to motivate parents of the children to send their children to school. We also want to recognize those girls who are fighting for their rights. In the future when I grow older, much older I want to do politics. I want to serve my country for politics. I want to help my people and I want to help in education.“

— Malala Yousafzai Pakistani children's education activist 1997

Statements in PBS interview with Margaret Warner (October 11, 2013)

Children, People, Education, School

„I think that it’s important always to retain awareness of what you call core ideas, including those in the tradition of political philosophy. I think keeping in touch with those earlier political philosophers, being aware of them as part of our training, I think that’s still quite worthwhile. I know, or I would guess less and less of that may be taking place. But at the same time, I think that we should try to remain aware of the richness and complexity of the world that we deal with out there, and how much more, in a way—[laughing] it’s always been complex, but how much more complex it’s grown. Especially the field of democracy now, in just the sheer number and varieties.“

— Robert A. Dahl American political scientist 1915 - 2014

A Conversation with Robert A. Dahl (2009)

World, Way, Democracy, Idea

„In 1995, when I was backpacking through Europe solo, I would head to the train station, look up at the big board, and decide right there and then where I would go that day.“

— Joseph Pisani American artist and photographer 1971

Television Interview, Aeschbacher April 4, 2008, Swiss Television SF1

„I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.“

— Sachin Tendulkar A former Indian cricketer from India and one of the greatest cricketers ever seen in the world 1973

Family, Home, Nature, Thinking

„When I was on the train from Liverpool to Cambridge to become a student, it occurred to me that no one at Cambridge knew I was painfully shy, so I could become an extrovert instead of an introvert.“

— 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]

„Train whistle blowin',
Makes a sleepy noise;
Underneath their blankets
Go all the girls and boys.
Rockin', rollin', ridin',
Out along the bay,
All bound for Morningtown,
Many miles away.“

— Malvina Reynolds American folk singer 1900 - 1978

Song Morningtown Ride

Girl, Boy

„Self-mastery is attained when the imagination has been directed and trained to conform with our desires-for although, in one sense, the imagination is inclined in the subconscious, yet it dominates the latter, and therefore, if we know how to guide it, our subconscious self will take charge of our material being and do its work just as we wish it to be done; or, in other words, exactly in conformity with our conscious suggestions.“

— Emile Coué French psychologist and pharmacist 1857 - 1926

Source: Autosuggestion : My method (2014), Chapter II. The role of imagination.

Imagination, Sense

„OK, David. Here we are on the train to Exeter, to the football club of which I am joint chairman, and where we're doing a charity show with Michael Jackson. You and I have both demonstrated some of the hidden powers of the mind and it would be interesting to hear, David, how you explain some of your incredible achievements.“

— 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

Football

„It would be better, I think, for the man who really seeks the truth not to ask what the poets say; rather, he should first learn the method of finding the scientific premises that I discussed in the second book; then he should train and exercise himself in this method; and when his training is sufficiently advanced, then, as he approaches each particular problem, he should enquire into the premise needed for proving it, which premise he should take from simple sense-perception, which from experience, whether drawn from life or from the arts, which from the truths clearly apprehended by the mind, in order to draw out from them the desired conclusion.“

— 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.

Life, Truth, Books, Art

„Without speech, thoughts plough on like a train without tracks, buckling, crashing, ripping everything apart.“

— Edward St. Aubyn British writer 1960

At Last, Chapter 13

„The Führer has ordered that the enemy employs in partisan warfare Communist-trained fanatics who do not hesitate to commit any atrocity. It is more than ever a question of life and death. This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans in the East, as well as in the Balkans, is not waged with the most brutal means, we will shortly reach the point where the available forces are insufficient to control the area. It is therefore not only justified, but it is the duty of the troops to use all means without restriction, even against women and children, so long as it ensures success. Any consideration for the partisans is a crime against the German people.“

— 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

Life, Death, Women, Children

„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.“

— 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.

Personality

„Getting crazy on the Waltzers, but it's the life that I choose.
Sing about the sixblade, sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo.
And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam,
And I don't know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell you where I am.“

— Mark Knopfler English guitarist 1949

Tunnel of Love, written with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Song lyrics, Making Movies (1980)

Life, Cars, Singing, Tattoo

„My most enduring memory of that year is not the birth of India and Pakistan. I could not even comprehend what was happening. As a teenager from a backward village in Pakistan, I had never seen a cycle, car or train. I was completely bewildered at the turn of events. All that mattered was how to get my next meal, usually a roti and an onion.“

— 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,

Cars, Birth, Memory

„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

„Such, and so many, moves the warrior's train. In bright array they seek the work of war, Where high unfurl'd the ensign waves in air. Shall I to Washington their praise recite? Enough thou know'st them in the fields of fight.“

— Phillis Wheatley American poet 1753 - 1784

1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

War, Fight

„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.“

— 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.

Time

„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.“

— 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

Life, Mathematics, Thinking, Learning

„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.“

— 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?

Way, Parting, Dependency

„Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.“

— Jean Cocteau French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker 1889 - 1963

Opium (1929)

Love, Life, Death

„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.“

— 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

Education

„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”.“

— 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”.

„I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence?… I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead.“

— Axel Munthe Swedish physician 1857 - 1949

Confidence, Study, Reading, Success

„When travel outside the city is desired, computer-guided vehicles for land, sea, air, space and beyond can transport passengers and freight. For rapid movement of passengers on land across via ducts, bridges, and tunnels, high-speed mag-lev trains span great distances and will efficiently replace most aircraft transportation.“

— Jacque Fresco American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916 - 2017

Designing the Future (2007)

Travel, Sea, Speed

„Those who betray an oath of loyalty and commitment are in training to become a master of deceit and deception.“

— RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

2016

Loyalty

„Songs to Herself:
She waved at all the people on the trains & 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.“

— 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

Life, People, Way, Singing

„The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.“

— Robert T. Kiyosaki, book Rich Dad Poor Dad

Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Wealth

„When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.“

— Ernest Hemingway, book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Love

„It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.“

— Douglas Adams, book Mostly Harmless

Source: Mostly Harmless

„You're a stubborn, ill-trained horse." she said
The horse snorted and walked towards the North Road of his own volition.
"Hey!" Karigan pulled back on the reins. "Whoa. Who do you think is in charge here?“

— Kristen Britain, Green Rider series

Source: Green Rider

Thinking, Horse

„Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.“

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Time, Past

„How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?"
"We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.“

— Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Alcohol, Law, Season

„It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.“

— Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

„That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.“

— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

„I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.“

— Ben Carson, book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

God, Way

„Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted.“

— Susanna Kaysen, book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Life, Dreams, Girl

„I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.“

— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Gwendolen, Act II
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Travel, Reading, Funny

„Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.“

— Junot Díaz Dominican-American writer 1968

Feeling

„The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think“

— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

Education, Thinking, Learning

„In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.“

— Carrie Fisher, book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

Life, Problem

„… how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?“

— 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

Fools, Home

„Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.“

— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

„Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself." Says Johanna.
"Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.“

— Suzanne Collins, book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Flying

„The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.“

— Cassandra Clare, book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Way

„Oh my God!" said one of the Ambers. "Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow?"
She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of human existence? Her own head?“

— Maureen Johnson, book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

God

„I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way".“

— John Boyne, book The Absolutist

Source: The Absolutist

Books, Way

„It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.“

— Fannie Flagg, book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Life, Thinking, Time

„The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.“

— Robin McKinley, book Sunshine

Source: Sunshine

„I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.“

— Carrie Fisher, book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Feeling, Thinking

„By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn’t working.
~pg. 317~“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Pain, Girl, Lying, Effort

„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.“

— Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Source: Infinity

Change

„Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!"
"So would I," said Gideon from across the room.“

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Learning

„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

„When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.“

— Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983

„Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.“

— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961

„Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?“

— 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

Art, Joy