Trained Quotes

• The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect.

  

  George Steele
  • Respect
  • Surviving
  • Wrestlers

• Modernity’s like a badly trained dog: try and make it heel, even for a moment, and it turns and bites the hand that fed it.

  

  Nicola Barker
  • Dog
  • Trained
  • Modernity

• Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Woman
  • Appearance
  • Trained

• This new generation of animators was trained in CG. They know all the fundamentals of any 2D animator, but a lot of them learned on these CG rigs. You give them a good rig, and they can make that thing sing.

  

  Rich Moore
  • Good
  • Generation
  • Sing

• My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

  

  Noah Gray-Cabey
  • Jazz
  • Piano
  • Trained

• He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Trouble
  • Newspapers
  • Trained

• We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • War
  • Danger
  • Generations

• I really feel that if it wasn't for the accident, I'd still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained.

  

  Roberto Duran
  • Fighting
  • Accident
  • Handled

• I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

  

  Clinton Morrison
  • Team
  • Ill
  • Cramp

• Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.

  

  Sarah West
  • Challenge
  • Command
  • Trained

• The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Change
  • Create
  • Girls

• For many of us it's been four years since we trained for this mission and its been a wonderful experience.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Experience
  • Mission
  • Trained

• We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

  

  Charlton Ogburn
  • Nation
  • Illusion
  • Teams

• Prince, I think, trained amazing musicians to bring more to any musical table they come to.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Prince
  • Musicians
  • Trained

• You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being a Queen will not overtax you as you will never be called upon to use your mind on any major matter. You will use the National Mind, their mind. It's very restful.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Mind
  • Queen
  • Trained

• Joe Frazier was the easiest boxer to work with that I ever trained.

  

  Eddie Futch
  • Work
  • Trained
  • Boxer

• The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Honor
  • Appearance
  • Trained

• A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Passions

• Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.

  

  Esther Vilar
  • Dogs
  • Slaves
  • Conditioned

• As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.

  

  Declan Lowney
  • Good
  • Director
  • Tidy

• Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Learned
  • Trained
  • Good Luck

• I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

  

  Nikolas "Nik" Wallenda
  • Life
  • Trained
  • Distracted

• I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Movies
  • Stage
  • Actress

• I trained in theater. I loved Los Angeles, but I've found New York to be successful for me.

  

  Susan Kelechi Watson
  • Successful
  • Theater
  • Trained

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