#raining

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies. ↗

— Jack Adams

#been #had #japanese #out #spies

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#eyes #my soul #raining #soul

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

— Christina Applegate

#had #i #now #training #value

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ↗

— Sean Astin

#eating #finish #four #goal #hardest

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#acted #art #because #excellence #habit

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight. ↗

— Denise Moreland

#leadership #management #organizational-leadership #training-management #business

Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#cycling #training #love

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#artistic-training #education #liberal-arts #art

I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing. ↗

— Inge de Bruijn

#because #doing #get #hard #hard work

We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work. ↗

— David Cameron

#back #everything #get #give #going