Quotes of: Military-training Keyword

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

Kate Reardon

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.

Gerald Chertavian

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Jackie Chan

I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.

Keith Coogan

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.

Pola Negri

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William J. Mayo

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Albert Camus

Mad! Quite mad!' said Stalky to the visitors, as one exhibiting strange beasts. 'Beetle reads an ass called Brownin', and M'Turk reads an ass called Ruskin; and-' 'Ruskin isn't an ass,' said M'Turk. 'He's almost as good as the Opium-Eater. He says we...

The Complete Stalky and Co.

Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They feel hopeless, often believing that the future will be as bad as the past, or that they will not live long...

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame, sadness, yearning and even some positive ones just as joy. * Other parts have a broader range of fe...

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

Children, awkward, isolate, their bodies crammed to bursting with caffein and sugar and pop music and cologne and perfume and hairgel and pimple cream and growth hormone-treated hamburger meat and premature sex drives and costly, fleeting, violent su...

The Savage Girl

Case shuffled into the nearest door and watched the other passengers as he rode. A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging toward a trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glitter...

Neuromancer

The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S....

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but re...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

What was behind this smug presumption that what pleased you was bad or at least unimportant in comparison to other things? … Little children were trained not to do “just what they liked’ but … but what? … Of course! What others liked. And w...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the train and had no idea where I was going, and that’s why I went there. Two hours later we arrived in a small town, one of those ...

Charlotte Eriksson

Hiccup: [to Valka, about the dragon sanctuary] This is where you've been for twenty years? [Valka nods] Hiccup: You-you've been rescuing them. [Valka nods again] Hiccup: Unbelievable. Valka: You're not upset? Hiccup: What? No! I... I don't know. I......

How to Train Your Dragon 2

[Hiccup prepares to open one of the dragon pens] Fishlegs: If you're planning on getting eaten, I'd definitely go with the Gronkle. [Hiccup turns in surprise and sees his entire class lined up behind him] Tuffnut: [approaching] You were wise to seek ...

How to Train Your Dragon

Del: You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you... but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you...

Planes, Trains & Automobiles