Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.
~By Evan Parker ~
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.
~By Joseph Pulitzer ~
Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
~By Wayne Brady ~
It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.
~By Sugar Ray Leonard ~
My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
~By R. Lee Ermey ~
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
~By John Boehner ~
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
~By Joe Baca ~
Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
~By Philip Pullman ~
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
~By Stephen Spender ~
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.
~By Michelle Kwan ~
When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.
~By Clara Hughes ~
I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?
~By Noah Taylor ~
Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.
~By Michael Bolton ~
Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
~By Alan Perlis ~
The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.
~By Jim Evans ~
The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.
~By John Cameron ~
I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
~By Bebe Neuwirth ~
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
~By Elvis Presley ~
You learn more doing than doing training.
~By Ian Hart ~
If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
~By John Grierson ~
I started training for musicals since I was a boy.
~By David Hasselhoff ~
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.
~By David Prowse ~
I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.
~By Philippe Perrin ~
The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
~By Susanna Moodie ~
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
~By Ann Druyan ~
The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.
~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
~By Harry Caray ~
MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
~By Carson Daly ~
These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
~By Dave Winfield ~
For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
~By Billy Zane ~
I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
~By Nancy Reagan ~
The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.
~By Erika Slezak ~
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
~By George Stigler ~
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
~By Joseph Jarman ~
We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
~By Pat Roberts ~
It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
~By Warren Cuccurullo ~
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.
~By Ken Calvert ~
We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.
~By Laurel Clark ~
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
~By Roy Barnes ~
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
~By Euripides ~
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
~By Sugar Ray Leonard ~
Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
~By Major Owens ~
It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.
~By Kim Campbell ~
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
~By Aristotle ~
The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.
~By Tony Bennett ~
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
~By Christy Mathewson ~
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
~By Alessandro Del Piero ~
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
~By Bernard Berenson ~
I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.
~By Rodger Ward ~
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
I'm a mediator by training and inclination.
~By Joan Blades ~
There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
~By Lawrence Korb ~
Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.
~By Don Knotts ~
The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.
~By Franz Beckenbauer ~
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
~By Fay Godwin ~
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
~By Roger Bannister ~
The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.
~By Michael Burgess ~
And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~
I have no formal culinary training, right.
~By Thomas Keller ~
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.
~By Mel Carnahan ~
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
~By Edward Bond ~
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
~By David Wilkerson ~
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
~By Paula Abdul ~
In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
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