“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. Education discovers an increasing… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“In the other train, looking at me through the window, is the most beautiful boy I’ve ever seen. He has golden hair… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“In most forms of exercise one’s breath follows the movement—the faster and harder you work, the faster and harder you will breathe.… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic… — Juan Gris Copy Share Image
“The great shapes of the hills, embrowned and glowing with the molten hues of autumn, are all about him: the towering summits,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“He was discomfited to see how easily men (and women as well) stepped from the train to station platform, from platform to… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
When I stopped touring, it was like trying to stop a bullet train or a giant lead ball falling from a 100… — Feist Copy Share Image
“As government, and strong rods for the exercise of it, are necessary to preserve public societies from dreadful and fatal calamities arising… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
When I went travelling around Europe there was the Eurovision song contest on, and I got a bit dunk and we missed… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if you are not 'good' at creative activity. You do not have to be 'good' at pushups before they… — Neil Kirby Copy Share Image
Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was 19 years when I got into acting training classes at a TV station and then I found a way to… — Tony Leung Chiu Wai Copy Share Image
I felt ugly, chubby, and stupid until I talked to my mom about it and she had me do a very good… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“There were dumplings on the train, sold by grim men and women with deep lines cut into their faces by years and… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Physical exercise is one of the most potent ways of changing your genes; put simply, when you exercise, you literally exercise your… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power… — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
“We are but phantoms, and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Time pressure is another driver of effort. As you carried out the Add-3 exercise, the rush was imposed in part by the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing.… — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Today, the “mental workout” has gained great currency in the popular imagination. Brain gyms and memory boot camps are a growing fad,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Victor Klemperer, a literary scholar of Jewish origin, turned his philological training against Nazi propaganda. He noticed how Hitler’s language rejected legitimate… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the… — Axel Munthe Copy Share Image
“Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
My music represents walking on train tracks in the middle of the woods, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. You walk down… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Right after we launched, I realized that all the training we'd on what to do if something went wrong during launch-how to… — Mike Massimino Copy Share Image
While I was doing this reportage, I discovered a man who had one arm and one leg. He'd been run over by… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“Homi Bhabha is just 30 years. He is a mechanical engineer by training. Like the electron he will talk about, he made… — P.V. Manoranjan Rao Copy Share Image
“Because here’s the thing: I was fine on my own, and so are you. But it can be hard when you feel… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life.… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
“A man walks fast along the forecourt of the station towards a gate, moving towards a train that's about to leave. I… — Dayo Forster Copy Share Image
Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. Stress is your body's way… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
