I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there near my family my kids also the real estate business I run with my wife.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causing you to bump into people not going your way.
The main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest but when they told me I could never have sex not even on my birthday I changed my mind.
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
Get the best people and train them well.
The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained best equipped fighting forces in the world.
I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best train them and back them. When errors occur give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement increased physical exercise better diet and restraint from eating.
Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
A well regulated militia composed of the body of the people trained in arms is the best most natural defense of a free country.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
One must learn if one is to see the beauty in Japan to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady ' 'Funny Face ' 'American in Paris ' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.