I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“Obedience is something you have to learn. The basic training in obedience has to start in childhood.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are extending basic training. It'll be the longest and toughest in the world. — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The first time I ever went to Texas was on a bus with curtains draped over the windows. I just joined the… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Every year thousands of dogs are abandoned to shelters because of behavior problems. And these are things that can be corrected with… — Martin Kihn Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke told me you Torchwood people always take the extreme view. We have a saying in basic training: "If you hear… — Peter Anghelides Copy Share Image
I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach… — Art Donovan Copy Share Image
For the gun work, I had more of the basic training from the previous [movie John Wick] and the weapon work I… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Basic technical training is, of course, useful. But to treat it as anything more than that is to lock students into technology… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Basic training was hard, but I made it - because I wanted to be the best me. Sometimes you have to learn… — Ant Middleton Copy Share Image
I took my basic training on a golf course in Florida. Then I was on the boxing team. We did some demonstrations,… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
“Roberts and Kyllonen (1999) explored the relation of morningness to cognitive ability. Using 420 U.S. Air Force recruits in the sixth week… — Pierce Howard Copy Share Image
“In July, 1950, one news commentator rather plaintively remarked that warfare had not changed so much, after all. For some reason, ground… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“Men who have survived close-quarters killing know that humans are possessed of a deep-seated, innate reluctance to kill their own species. I… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“She informed me that anything hand written would remain private, but anything typed- newspaper, cartoons, magazine articles- were to be read aloud… — Rachel Stephens Showman Copy Share Image
“When Jamie left for basic training I knew exactly what I had to do. Of course, I knew what it feels like… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
“On my next weekend without the kids I went to Nashville to visit her. We had a great weekend. On Monday morning… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
“So after I got Jamie’s address, I wrote to her every day. Every night after I put the kids to bed, I… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
“When Jamie left for basic training I knew exactly what I had to do. Of course, I knew what it feels like… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
To serve in the modern military - or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does - is to… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do two years in the regular army, my music career was just getting started. So, I joined the… — Eddie Rabbitt Copy Share Image
“I just wrote as much as I could for several pages. Every night I wrote her novels and every morning I mailed… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
National service is at the heart of our military operations. That service extends beyond basic training and the battlefield, and directly into… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
“To be in the Army, you need to be smart or strong, and you privates ain’t either.” — Joseph Perry Grassi Copy Share Image
i do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at… — Thomas Holcomb Copy Share Image
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
“Soldiers seem so durable, resilient, and so heroic in war novels. On the television screen they're afraid of nothing. I wonder if… — Ryan Smithson Copy Share Image
The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“April 1 I AM CALLING YOU to a life of constant communion with Me. Basic training includes learning to live above your… — Sarah Young Copy Share Image