I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.
In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization
An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.
I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
I've never trained anyone that I haven't known as a child. I knew Kirkland when he was 12. Every one of them I started training when they were kids. This is not about just the fight game for me. It is a sport for troubled children that are drawn to violence and that type of life. Boxing has that violence part in it, but it also has structure and dedication and the whole nine yards. You get that little bit of violence that you were drawn towards, but it can save a lot of kids.
I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.
I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel God has truly blessed me.
I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.
The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.
I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
I asked each if [Yao Xingtong and Zhang Lanxin] was afraid of heights. Each said no, and although they had never had the action movie experience they were willing to be trained. Then I asked if they could swim, and each said yes, but she (gestures toward YX) is better. She said, I can also dive, in fact I once won a diving championship in an international competition. Then she said, "But big brother, I'm not very strong," and I said that's all right.
In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
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.
I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star.
So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.