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Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained. -- John Kricfalusi
I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer. -- Kailash Kher
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday. -- Sherilyn Fenn
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible. -- Patton Oswalt
Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing. -- Christian Bale
On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't really block a scene in a traditional way. -- Cary Fukunaga
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers. -- Derek Bok
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. -- William James
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements. -- Yoko Ono
I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality. -- Ronnie James Dio
If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions. -- Kurt Eichenwald
There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn. -- Erika Slezak
These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths. -- Mercedes Lackey
Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know they are like those people who are taken for walks by their dogs, towed through hedges and ditches by an untrained sub-human energy. -- Hilary Mantel
Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone. -- Laila Robins
I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him. -- Rebecca Hall
I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. -- Frank Black
There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained. -- Alistair Overeem
The mind is an untrained child you got to teach what to do. -- Daniel Beaty
I can sing, but my voice is untrained. Id like to do a musical someday. -- Sherilyn Fenn
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. -- Frank Gehry
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it -- Mark Twain
The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations. -- Ben Shahn
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable. -- Edmond de Goncourt
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military. -- Douglas MacArthur
An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy. -- James Mattis
Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer. -- Margot Fonteyn
To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery. -- Deb Caletti
Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained. -- Carlo Grante
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar. -- Thorstein Veblen
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. -- Aleister Crowley
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All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music? -- Eubie Blake
My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind. -- Hans Selye
Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries. -- Trelise Cooper
First, I'm a writer; I look at things from a different point of view. The untrained eye is the eye that sees what's been missed.Devon, from The Dragon's Breath by Jenna Lindsey -- Jenna Lindsey
That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average physicist refuses to be eaten by a giraffe in the name of science. -- Bradley Sands

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