He'd said something about life being a survival course - arriving where you wanted to in the end.
The training program wasn't a survival course, but sometimes a person came through who put the horrors of 41 into perspective.
The girls who sign up for fashion's survival course say they couldn't imagine life on the other side of the camera.
The survival course would take six days and be some respite from Vietnam, albeit a short one.
For most of us, winter is a survival course.
But she didn't seem able to get the survival course through her head.
"They don't understand that it's a survival course for the very bright."
Five days into a survival course on the Hebrides, and still no food.
Those who saw him trapped here would report him when they reached the end of the survival course.
That much she also remembered very well from their survival course.