#raining

We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools. ↗

— David Petraeus

#again #al-qaeda #area #attackers #attacks

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#common #doing #duties #effective #great

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#better #blocks #competitors #confidence #day

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#basic #could #day #eat #hard

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out. ↗

— Charlotte Rampling

#because #fabulous #get #gives #nervous

We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#good #lot #more #people #spend

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore. ↗

— Todd English

#certain #guidelines #hire #people #period

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#america #because #civil #civil liberties #destruction

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#attention #hold #like #mature #minutes

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#big #big leagues #game #go #good