Media Training Quotes

#1. There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

Rene Redzepi

#2. People do not trust the slick and polished. Instead, the objectives of media training should be to learn how to directly address difficult questions, how to avoid falling into media traps, and most importantly, how to accomplish the two previous tasks with honesty and integrity.

Jeff Ansell

#3. Certification programs for social media are blossoming as a response to the demand for more social media training. Both industry professionals and recent graduates are tapping into tactical training programs to help them stay up to date as the industry grows.

Ryan Holmes

#4. I didn't have any media training - I didn't have anybody but myself.

Nikki Reed

#5. I've learnt a lot over the years, but I'm still quite outspoken. And no matter how much media training you put me through, I don't think I could be anything but.

Lee Ryan

#6. I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what's happening on the research front.

Amy Cuddy

#7. Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#8. I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

Neil Patrick Harris

#9. Nothing about my life is lucky - it's all about hard work, it is all an uphill struggle.

Emily Giffin

#10. I tried to be normal once ... worst two minutes of my life.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#11. Sometimes a certain kind of dream can be even stronger than reality.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

Lenny Kravitz

#13. Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Sharon Salzberg

#14. F**k!" he exploded, chocolate and caramel flying out of his mouth. My heart seized. He looked like he was going to have a chocolate-caramel-layer-square-induced heart attack.
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"These are unbe-f**king-lievable. I think I've finally fallen in love, with a f**kin' brownie!

Kristen Ashley

#15. We must always strive to reflect the highest vision of ourselves.

Bryant McGill

#16. The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

Gary Zukav

#17. I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life ... The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.

Gabe Jennings

#18. Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.

Steven Pressfield

#19. The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.

Noam Chomsky

#20. More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.

John Pilger

#21. We are never without our technology. It surrounds us. It permeates our lives. We have powerful computers in our pockets, and we have been - you know, we are training our children from the youngest age to use social media, so it's something that comes very naturally to us.

Lance Ulanoff

#22. We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman's discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ.

Francis Schaeffer

#23. We need to think less NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and more SWIMBY (Something Wonderful In My Back Yard)

Rob Hopkins

#24. The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

Ruben Papian

#25. 'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Joe Clark

#26. Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.

Andrew Breitbart

#27. The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief.

Kerry Greenwood

#28. Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

Mindy Kaling

#29. It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.

Michelle Jenneke

#30. Sin is followed by a fear of being caught.

Paulo Coelho