Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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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.
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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.
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I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.
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Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
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Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
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People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.
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Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.
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You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.
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So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
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My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.
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An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
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I think the best value to leaders is understanding the generations for the purpose of integrating a younger workforce and transferring knowledge from an experienced workforce. I also think smaller companies may not have the resources for management training or recruiting and therefore there is not a lot of margin for error.
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I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.
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To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.
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Non-literate societies cannot see films or photos without much training. (p. 41)
