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		Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Toni Braxton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jake Gyllenhaal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Dave Franco, I could put him up there with the best card throwers in the world. Not the best sleight of hand, but he could take a card and fire it over there and stick it into an apple. If he kept training at it, he could definitely break a Guinness World Record - he's that good.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Keith Barry
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What the worker needs is to see the plant as if he were a manager. Only thus can he see his part, from his part he can reach the whole. This 'seeing' is not a matter of information, training courses, conducted plant tours, or similar devices. What is needed is the actual experience of the whole in and through the individual's work.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Drucker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yuichiro Miura
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they don't go to RADA. There just aren't the parts for dwarfs, and if you like it or not, you're typecast as a dwarf.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kenny Baker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn't received any new equipment in 20 years.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Heckman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I loved the bootcamp and the training. It was the actual Navy and the structure after it that I realized wasn't for me because they're building soldiers. It's a system, and you can't really stick out; you can't be the oddball out in the military.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kiesa Rae Ellestad
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donnie Yen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Abby Wambach
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		He was feeling things out at the beginning of training camp and as things went on, you really saw the ability for him to play the game at this level.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Luke Richardson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All those car battles with my brother Ned were excellent training. Even now, on the set, if we're getting into a vehicle, I'll yell 'shotgun' first. Thus forcing Steve Martin into the back of the car.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chevy Chase
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The hardest thing is getting fake hit. You really have to sell it. Somebody comes at you and stops a couple inches from your face. You have to react like it's painful. In my training, those were the days I was more sore, doing gut punches or getting thrown against walls. You're moving your body in a way that's not natural.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cobie Smulders
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paulo Coelho
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ajahn Chah
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Billy Zane
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Blaine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Taylor Phinney