Top 100 Preparation Preparation Preparation Quotes
#1. I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
Johnnie Cochran
#2. I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
Hilary Swank
#3. Success is experienced when opportunity meets preparation, persistence, and prayer.
Temeko Richardson
#4. Here's what I've learned about eating healthy when you're busy: It's all about preparation. Make your snacks on Sunday, and you will be good to go until Thursday or so.
Summer Sanders
#5. The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
Alan Page
#6. [The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball.
Vince Kehres
#8. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
#9. In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
Sinclair Lewis
#10. It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence of anyone's genius contracts itself to a precious few hours.
James D Hornfischer
#11. Although her book did include compelling recipes for scrapple, ox cheek, and baked calf's head and tips for the preparation of raccoon, possum, snipe, plovers, and blackbirds (for blackbird pie) and "how to broil, fricassee, stew or fry a squirrel," it was much more than just a cookbook.
Erik Larson
#12. Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace creates a stability that even Satan cannot undo.
Tony Evans
#13. It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.
Clara Barton
#14. When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.
Penelope Cruz
#15. Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.
John Turner
#16. But love was not about practice or preparation, it was pure chance; if you took your time with it you ran the risk of having it evaporate before it had even begun
Alice Hoffman
#17. I had thought about everything carefully before I had agreed to him. I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials that could not be calculated; his heart and mine.
Jeanette Winterson
#18. I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.
Marilynne Robinson
#19. Then he just blurted it out, with no preparation. 'The truth of it is that whether your mother arranged our marriage, or whether it was all an illusion, I must be horribly obtuse, because I can't talk myself out of being in love with you.
Eloisa James
#20. Death of a parent, he wrote, despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago.
Joan Didion
#21. I've always been fortunate in that I'm quite good at what I do, but there have been many people who have made it to the high level and they weren't necessarily the fastest runner in their class at school. Concentrate on yourself. It's down to planning, preparation and being dedicated.
Jenny Meadows
#22. Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.
George Mikes
#23. In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.
Harold E. Varmus
#24. I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.
Peter James
#26. preparation, order, patience, endurance, acting in the face of fear and failure
Steven Pressfield
#27. The history of mankind before his birth must be viewed as a preparation for his coming, and the history after his birth as a gradual diffusion of his spirit and progress of his kingdom.
Philip Schaff
#28. Once we get to Heaven we know everything there is to know. We remember every life we've ever lived. We recall everyone we've ever loved. There is much to know here, but there is not too much to learn. That's why we have to do our learning before we get here.
Kate McGahan
#29. 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
#30. It's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
Nadine Gordimer
#31. Be disciplined and disciple to thrive in every situation and keep cleaved to your plans.
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
Adora Svitak
#33. It was a bit on the frantic side, maybe because neither one of us had done the metal preparation, so we were both thinking, Oh, right! Kissing! Quickly! Quickly! More movement! Deploy tongue!
Maureen Johnson
#34. Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful for the time to prepare and learn to harness it.
Tom Althouse
#35. Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#36. If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.
Casey Wilson
#37. There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.
Charlie Kaufman
#38. So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
John Ratzenberger
#39. Be prepared to say "no" to some things. That is the key. When you say "yes" to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them.
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.
Jerry Tarkanian
#41. I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
Taylor Swift
#42. Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
Ben Carson
#43. Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.
Mark Cuban
#44. I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.
Amanda Beard
#45. 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
#46. We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.
Ralph Bunche
#47. Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.
Mary Ellen Chase
#48. You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
Roger Maris
#49. We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.
Howard Carter
#50. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
Bobby Knight
#51. 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
#52. I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.
John Steinbeck
#53. Coaching to me is the ultimate high, especially when you have a game plan and you see that game plan executed to perfection. To see those players take what you put in front of them in preparation and turn it into a masterpiece - it doesn't get any better than that.
Dick Vitale
#54. 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
#55. Take a second look at what you are about to do ... A second look prevents a second chance.
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. 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
#57. Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.
Don Kardong
#58. Preparation is the pressure valve on a busy schedule.
Todd Stocker
#59. Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
Corrie Ten Boom
#60. 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
#61. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
#62. Preparation clears a pathway for success.
Ron Kaufman
#63. They say the best laid plans often go a lie, Because no matter how detailed the preparation, A plan will always have a weak point and there will always be those looking to exploit it. To do into the plan failure and the perpetrator along with it.
Emily Thorne
#65. If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.
Alicia Machado
#66. Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
William Glasser
#67. To Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation
Charles Dickens
#69. 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
#70. Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.
Wynton Marsalis
#71. Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
William Faulkner
#72. Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work, and leadership all come together.
Tom Coughlin
#73. The value of just one soul is greater than any single thing upon this earth. For there can be nothing greater than raising a child in preparation for that journey back to where he came from, a place where his immortal father lives, a place known as heaven, a place called home.
Richard B. Pelzer
#74. Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
Henry Rollins
#75. How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits.
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.
Richard Schmid
#77. Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.
Israelmore Ayivor
#78. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#79. Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
W.B.Yeats
#80. Motivation + preparation and training has given me the ability to hit my flow easily and efficiently. It's real, tangible, and available to you, too.
Monica Leonelle
#81. If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#82. Some days are about preparation, but some are pure inspiration.
Colleen Mariotti
#84. If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining
Max Brooks
#85. Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.
Kenneth Branagh
#86. Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
Freya Stark
#88. I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. "Action" - and then do it.
Anthony Hopkins
#89. So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations ... I have built my own factory on my own ground.
Madam C. J. Walker
#92. Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.
Letitia Baldrige
#93. A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
Elbert Hubbard
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.
Fanny Burney
#97. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do. I
Corrie Ten Boom
#98. I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4 ... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.
Michelle Dockery
#99. That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one.
Max Brooks
#100. A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
Edwin Land
