Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Samuel Butler

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
Philip Pullman

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
Charlie Sheen

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Jawaharlal Nehru

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne Brady

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
Vivien Leigh

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Vivien Leigh

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Vivien Leigh

I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.
Christina Applegate

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Twyla Tharp

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
Carroll Quigley

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Andre Agassi

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.
Walter Annenberg

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
George Clooney

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.
Emil Zatopek

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.
Emil Zatopek