Top 100 Preparation Is Quotes
#1. The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.
John Smith
#2. My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.
John Edward
#3. Preparation is good, but customers need results.
Ron Kaufman
#4. Preparation is the key to your success. You cannot dismiss the process and expect to be truly successful.
Linda Gibson
#5. Good preparation is better then hope for a miracle.
Sunday Adelaja
#6. To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.
Sachin Tendulkar
#7. We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.
Robert Kraft
#8. Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.
Paul Brown
#9. I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.
Cory Lidle
#10. A lot of the things that other people from outside the business would see as crazy or strange are just a natural part of the working process. Preparation is key, and detail and collaboration are the rule, but no matter how many hours you spend preparing, there's always something.
Russell Crowe
#11. Preparation is the pressure valve on a busy schedule.
Todd Stocker
#12. There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.
Thomas S. Monson
#13. Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.
Richard Baxter
#14. NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. Just as foreplay is the key to good sex, preparation is essential to achieving victory in battle. Right, lieutenant?
Natalia Marx
#16. One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;
book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#17. Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.
Idries Shah
#18. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#19. Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.
Wayne Rooney
#20. For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
Havelock Ellis
#21. Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.
George S. Clason
#23. I've always been one to arrive early for work; preparation is a big part of how I work, and I like to be in my office going through plans for the upcoming training sessions or meetings I have.
Brendan Rodgers
#24. Prayer without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog, and prayer without preparation is hawking with a blind falcon.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#25. The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#26. Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
Louis Nizer
#27. Preparation is the biggest key right now.
Vince Young
#28. preparation is obviously important, but at some point, you must stop preparing content and start preparing mind-set. You have to shift from what you'll say to how you'll say it.
Amy Cuddy
#29. Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.
Chris Hadfield
#30. Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you, so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.
Albert Pujols
#31. 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
#32. At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.
Barry Trotz
#33. Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#34. Preparation is rarely easy and never beautiful.
Maya Angelou
#35. When it comes to taking your own life, preparation is procrastination.
Steve Toltz
#37. Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.
Deepika Padukone
#38. Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.
Winston Churchill
#39. My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.
Daniel Radcliffe
#40. My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.
Sarah Wayne Callies
#41. Preparation is based on one driving force for me and that is to be relaxed enough to be able to listen to what the candidates are saying and react appropriately.
Jim Lehrer
#44. Preparation is the only way to get ready for a hard test, whether a court trial, race, boxing match, Broadway appearance or death. You can fake readiness, falling back on past experience and bravado. But without backbreaking preparation for a main event, you know inside that you aren't really ready.
James Donovan
#45. When one is dining with the devil himself," I mutter, "a vast amount of preparation is in order.
Aprilynne Pike
#46. The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonald
#47. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers
#48. As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
F. Murray Abraham
#49. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
#50. And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#51. Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.
Neal Boortz
#52. I believe that what it is I have been called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready.
Jan Phillips
#54. Most commercial products that contain organic molecules possess at least one carbon-carbon double bond, or if one is not present, it is likely that an olefin was used in its preparation. This being the case, the potential applications of olefin metathesis are endless.
Robert H. Grubbs
#55. The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle ...
Garrett McCoy
#56. You can't prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.
Auliq Ice
#57. When poets - write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.
Joyce Carol Oates
#58. I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.
Anna Pump
#59. Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.
Tom Black
#60. Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.
Larry Atchley Jr.
#62. Contextualization is a good dance partner, but she should never be allowed to lead. Put her before the exegetical steps in your sequence of preparation, and problems will quickly emerge.
David R. Helm
#63. Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give you victory. Your emptiness - is but the preparation for your being filled; and your casting down - is but the making ready for your lifting up!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#64. It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Henri Matisse
#65. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
Bobby Knight
#66. From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.
Agatha Christie
#67. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#68. People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.
Gary Chapman
#69. The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.
Boris Spassky
#70. The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.
John C. Maxwell
#71. Realisation is real religion, all the rest is only preparation - hearing lectures, or reading books, or reasoning is merely preparing the ground; it is not religion.
Swami Vivekananda
#72. The majority of my work is about preparation.
Taryn Simon
#73. I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
Will Smith
#74. 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
#75. As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.
James F. Cooper
#76. Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
William Faulkner
#77. The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.
Chrissie Wellington
#78. If you are lucky, God will lead you to a situation you cannot control, you cannot fix, or you cannot even understand. At that point true spirituality begins. Up to that point is all just preparation."1
Morris Dirks
#79. I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.
Kathryn Lasky
#80. The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher ... is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.
Maria Montessori
#81. But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
Stuart Pearce
#82. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
Twyla Tharp
#83. Practice is simply preparation for success.
Zig Ziglar
#84. The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
Thomas Chalmers
#85. Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child ... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.
Anita Diamant
#86. Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
John Of The Cross
#87. The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.
William Weld
#88. Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. Proper preparation ensures that when an opportunity is presented to you, you are ready to seize it and excel.
Tyler Basu
#90. Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.
David Robinson
#91. An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.
Maria Montessori
#92. A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
Ira Glass
#93. Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity.
Kevin Swanson
#94. There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.
Andrew Loomis
#95. Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
Robertson Davies
#96. The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
William Osler
#97. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John Dewey Polt
#98. The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.
Lee Strobel
#99. Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process.
Joan D. Chittister
#100. Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
Paulo Coelho
