Alfred Shrubb (Alfie Shrubb) Quotes

Training can get on a man’s nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

Alfred Shrubb

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• For me a day without training is like a day without eating.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Me
  • Day
  • Training

• I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Believe
  • Things
  • Use

• 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.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Religious

• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Opportunity
  • Single
  • Training

• To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • School
  • Feeling

• 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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Environment

• All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • God
  • Men
  • College

• I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Think
  • Style
  • Training

• Let students use technologies in the classroom.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Use
  • Students
  • Classroom

• It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • You
  • Training
  • Lot

• I have several businesses that revolve around fighting: the training centres, the clothing line and all that stuff. I'll probably be involved in the sport in some way shape or form, and I'll continue to train and be active and do the things that I love to do.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Fighting
  • Training
  • Involved

• Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Career
  • Training
  • Try

• By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Training

• There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Past
  • Training
  • Changes

• Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Brain
  • Training

• Moms get their fair share of conflicting advice, with a heaping of unsolicited advice. Parents debate the pros/cons of different types of disposable diapers, whether the supposed carcinogens in Johnson & Johnson baby products hurt their kids who used it, which method of sleep training to use.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Church

• I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and also my career, because it's a lot. I don't want someone who's like... 'Oh, you don't have time for me'. Like, I want somebody who's sure of himself and gonna be like, 'Okay, you go do your thing, and when you come back, we're good.'

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• 'Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,' said my young friend. 'A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere...consensual idiocy.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Experience

• I had just turned 28 and sold my first book, a travel guide for vegetarians, but I'd tell people about the day job that I didn't care about instead - I placed banner advertisements on the web for a search engine company.

  

  James Bernard Frost
  • People
  • Job
  • Book

• 'School Daze' was one of the highlights of my life because it was the first chance I had to act on screen. I would have been happy if that had been it, because I proved that I could do it.

  

  Bill Nunn
  • Life
  • School
  • Happy

• Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Like
  • Things
  • Cancer

• Training can get on a man’s nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

  

  Alfred Shrubb
  • Training
  • Use
  • Denying