Trained Quotes

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Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions,… — Wilferd Peterson
Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES… — Mel Duncan
He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things. — Honore de Balzac
I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests… — Matthew Lillard
If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained… — Helen Caldicott
There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance. — Kate Smith
The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude for example gratitude… — Orison Swett Marden
Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what… — J. B. Matthews
Girls are trained to say, â€˜I wrote this, but itâ€™s probably really stupid.â€™ Well, no, you wouldnâ€™t write a novel if you thought it was… — Lena Dunham
Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from… — Philip Emeagwali
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out,… — Barbara Johnson
I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue. — Ming-Na Wen
It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains… — Pat Summitt
We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society, where everyone… — Philip K. Howard
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women — Naomi Wolf
As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities. — Magnus Larsson
An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in. — Daniel J. Boorstin
The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the… — Eve Ensler

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