#training

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

I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

#gaza #i #level #most #my own

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

— Joan Baez

#come #go #how #into #kill

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#gym #i #personal #training #yoga

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ↗

— Josh Billings

#effect #fighting #him #his #man

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#been #call #i #limited #might

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

#empowering #fame #handle #how #i

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver. ↗

— Rodger Ward

#car #crown #damn #driver #experience

Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#never-give-up #training #truth #writing #life

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness. ↗

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#mind-training #mindfulness #nature