Great Preparation Quotes

#1. Sports were supposed to be a reflection of life, a life lesson, a test of endurance and strength, a great preparation for the real world.

Harlan Coben

#2. I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Jack Canfield

#3. I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

Hallie Ephron

#4. Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.

Robert Ferrigno

#5. The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

Isabella Beeton

#6. When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself - a masterpiece of God.

Carl Schmitt

#7. Torin had never been a great believer in luck, preferring to trust in training, preparation, and strong artillery support, but it was impossible to deny the good fortune that had caused them to crash precisely where they had.

Tanya Huff

#8. Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

J. B. Matthews

#9. The men drink a third beer, then a fourth, in preparation for the cold trip crosstown.
"I wish I could meet a decent woman."
Howard, who has learned the great secret, and who after beer, is generous: "Go to a library.

Jack Cady

#10. The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes ... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.

Stefan Zweig

#12. We give great value for our franchisees: They can build a store for well under $200,000. And we have extremely simple operating systems. The preparation is mostly done in front of the customer. That simplicity is really what attracts our Subway franchise. You see it, and you can do it.

Fred DeLuca

#13. If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

Tobey Maguire

#14. Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

Hamza Yusuf

#15. Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

Edward Thomson

#16. If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.

Emma Thompson

#17. Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

Sun Tzu

#18. pulling a great substance from a higher height whilst leaning on a slippery ground with the mentality of having the substance whilst standing is a thought of fantasy. You may only result in falling with the substance

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. [Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

Edward Forbes

#20. You do need prayer, more than you know, ' Carita said softly. 'Prayer is the keynote. Prayer isn't the preparation to accomplish the purposes of Adon Olam. It is the accomplishment of His purposes. Great works are done through prayer.

Erika Mathews

#21. I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

Jessye Norman

#22. I'm not an athlete; I'm a quarterback. I don't have great speed, and I can't throw 90 yards down the field. I win games because I've done the mental preparation.

Joey Harrington

#23. Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.

John Of The Cross

#24. Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.

Arthur Lynch

#25. Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

Michael Bennet

#26. A great quality of your preparation will manifest on your performance.

Euginia Herlihy

#27. There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

Matt Smith

#28. It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

Mark Twain

#29. when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.

Ben Carson

#31. I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.

Jorge Cruise

#32. Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.

Tom Black

#33. We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

Ahad Ha'am

#34. My father-in-law ... was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

Billy Graham

#35. I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

Suzanne Farrell