Quotes about weight training and exercise
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Elon Musk photo

“I'd rather be optimistic and wrong; than pessimistic and right.
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We have planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, walking, Segway, hot air balloons, mopeds and boats, ... What if there was a tenth mode?”

Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur

Source: 13 July 2012 [Garber, Megan, The Real iPod: Elon Musk's Wild Idea for a 'Jetson Tunnel' from S.F. to L.A., http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/the-real-ipod-elon-musks-wild-idea-for-a-jetson-tunnel-from-sf-to-la/259825/, 21 July 2012, The Atlantic] regarding Hyperloop

Cheng Yen photo

“Hire for all jobs based on empathy. Employ people who care about people; everything else can be trained.”

Tom Peters (1942) American writer on business management practices

Source: Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote, 01 March 2021

Patrisse Cullors photo

“We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.”

Patrisse Cullors (1984) American artist and activist

See Black Lives Matter co-founder describes herself as ‘trained Marxist’ https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/, New York Post, June 25, 2020

“School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers. School trains children to obey reflexively; teach your own to think critically and independently.”

John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (2008)
Source: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, New Society Publishers (2013) p. xxii

Irfaan Ali photo
Joe Biden photo

“The idea that we’re going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews, just understand … that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys. We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, March 2022
Source: Why Biden and the White House keep talking about World War III (March 17, 2022) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/17/why-biden-white-house-keep-talking-about-world-war-iii/

Sandy Koufax photo

“People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.”

Sandy Koufax (1935) American baseball player

As quoted in "Sandy Began Slowly and Then Got Worse; At Tired Arm Stage" by Charles Maher, in The Los Angeles Times (April 14, 1966)

Beiwen Zhang photo

“There is a lot of pressure on the players in the Chinese team. I wouldn’t have survived if I had stayed there. Right now, I have the freedom to choose which tournaments to play and where to train. I take decisions that suit me.”

Beiwen Zhang (1990) badminton player

"Well-travelled Beiwen Zhang plays on her own terms" in The Indian Express https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/badminton/well-travelled-beiwen-zhang-plays-on-her-own-terms-5046843/ (1 February 2018)

Beiwen Zhang photo

“My life is pretty interesting now … I definitely can do better with more training and a coach but I don’t want to compare myself to others. I just want to enjoy my life, and my badminton”

Beiwen Zhang (1990) badminton player

"Zhang happy her destiny is in her own hands" in Today Online https://www.todayonline.com/sports/zhang-happy-her-destiny-her-own-hands (17 April 2016)

Beiwen Zhang photo

“I’m just wishing I can play with higher-level players, so I can get used to that speed and focus while training at that speed. If I get used to playing with slower players, mentally it’s not pushing my limit.”

Beiwen Zhang (1990) badminton player

"Beiwen Zhang – Adapting To Every Challenge" in Badminton Pan America http://www.badmintonpanam.org/beiwen-zhang-adapting-to-every-challenge/ (15 December 2020)

Viktor Yanukovych photo

“Healthcare is the field which should go ahead, like smoke from a steam train.”

Viktor Yanukovych (1950) Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine

2012
Source: [Янукович: Медицина должна идти впереди, как дым от паровоза, https://zn.ua/POLITICS/yanukovich_meditsina_dolzhna_idti_vperedi,_kak_dym_ot_parovoza_.html, 2022-06-12, Mirror Weekly]

Thomas Sankara photo

“We want to get our army involved with the people in productive work and remind it constantly that, without patriotic training, a soldier is only a criminal with power.”

Thomas Sankara (1949–1987) President of Upper Volta

From a speech to the United Nations on 4 October 1984 https://www.marxists.org/archive/sankara/1984/october/04.htm

Aristotle photo
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow photo

“No one can possess what we call good judgement, which is about the same thing as an instinct for recognizing Reasonable Probabilities, whose mind is not trained to follow truth. And in many of the most important things of life. Reasonable Probabilities are our only guides.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952) British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)

12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19-20

Dolores Huerta photo

“What we're doing is we're not only just giving good health care-fantastic health care-but we are training our own people to be able to do the health work and to administer the program.”

Dolores Huerta (1930) American labor leader

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub