#pro

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation. ↗

— Jim Evans

#based #demonstration #developed #drill #educational

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#approved #attend #funeral #i #letter

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. ↗

— Dave Barry

#follow #generally #here #me #place

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. ↗

— Bette Davis

#attempt #been #impossible #improve #mine

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#got #into #left #mother #nothing

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#free #guise #health #intimidate #into

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. ↗

— Chili Davis

#bat #effortless #first #first time #game

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#competence #continues #force #great #itself

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value. ↗

— Evan Davis

#aerospace #because #britain #british #cars