A Christian way of thinking is not just thinking Christian thoughts, singing Christian songs, reading Christian books, going to Christian schools; it is learning to think about the whole spectrum of life from the perspective of a mind that has been trained in truth.
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts. " This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.
As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
I think when you have a good warm up you feel good about your performance. You know that you've trained so mentally you're in a better state.
I was not a trained actor.
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
Every good soldier is trained for the battle field. God is prepping you my darlings.
I trained myself to be organized.
I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques, all of the things that this entails. And, of course, it involved studying the Koran.
I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos.
We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.
The book that influenced me most is Sherlock Holmes, which teaches you the way to deal with reality: to deduct. It teaches you to put together the signs. For example, I look at a person and I see their coat, their jacket, their handwriting, their iPhone, and I am able to deduct some details about who they are, what they wear, and what they do. For many years I was fascinated with Sherlock Holmes. The series trained me to look at the world through these sharp, unforgiving eyes.
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch and listen closely we'll see the multiplicity of ways in which people are sexed and gendered. There exists a range of personal identifications around woman, man, in-between-we don't even have names or pronouns that reflect that in between place but people certainly live in it.
Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.
No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person.
In the midst of chaos, you've gotta be able to slow it down. That's one of the things that God's gifted me with, it's one of the things that I've trained for, and train for now.
I trained three or four days a week for two and a half months, before they'd even let me near the real dress. And I destroyed two practice dresses completely. They were just ripped to shreds. They looked like cats had gotten a hold of them.
In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can enver focus enough to learn.
Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.