Top 100 Quotes About Preparation
#1. When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.
Angela Ruggiero
#2. I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
Hilary Swank
#3. Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#4. Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
Mark McKinnon
#5. Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
Ralph Ellison
#7. Every goodbye calls for preparation, but most times, life takes us by surprise.
Elisabetta Gnone
#8. Success is experienced when opportunity meets preparation, persistence, and prayer.
Temeko Richardson
#9. Toward dusk, the black birds descend, millions of them, to sit in the branches of trees nearby. The trees grow heavy with black birds, branches like dendrites of the Nervous System fattening, deep in twittering nerve-dusk, in preparation for some important message ... .
Thomas Pynchon
#10. It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
Alice Waters
#11. Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.
Terry Pratchett
#12. We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.
Henry Ford
#13. The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonald
#14. I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#15. Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you
Rory Miller
#16. I approach every week the same. I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.
Tom Brady
#17. 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
#18. For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
James Payn
#19. My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration ... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.
Margaret Atwood
#20. Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory
Osho
#21. 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
#22. [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
#23. Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.
Corrie Ten Boom
#24. Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
Calvin Coolidge
#25. Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
Tom Robbins
#26. I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for me that I'm starting to realize that any character that I relate to, in any way, shape or form, or that I have any appreciation for, given enough preparation, I can find that person.
Zoe Bell
#27. I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.
William H. Macy
#28. I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
William Shatner
#29. No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Horace
#31. Preparation was a term I was to hear more and more. It had another more sinister meaning. If you were prepared, it meant you were doped.
David Millar
#32. Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#33. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers
#34. I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.
Jonny Wilkinson
#35. Those who endure the hardest preparation are called on to finish the greatest tasks. I don't know what you've been called to, but rest assure, you won't have to go through it alone.
D.L. Fowler
#36. We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
Veronica Roth
#37. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
#38. Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#39. 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
#40. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
#42. I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short ... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.
Chang-rae Lee
#43. The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
Harlan Coben
#44. 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
#45. The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.
L. Tom Perry
#46. 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
#47. When the noise is gone, and
the air is still ...
prepare for survival.
John-Talmage Mathis
#48. My favorite antibiotic for smearing on infected cuts is a prescription preparation called mupirocin (brand name Bactroban), which is available in ointment or cream form. The clear ointment, which is older and off patent, costs $10 a tube. The white cream, which the drug company created when the
Elisabeth Rosenthal
#49. I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation
Michelle Kwan
#50. 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
#51. 3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated?
Robert D. Kintigh
#52. 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
#53. Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity."4
Jon Acuff
#54. Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.
Neal Boortz
#55. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.
Jack White
#56. A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#57. I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Zona Gale
#58. I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
Seamus Heaney
#59. If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation
Napoleon Bonaparte
#60. ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
Gore Vidal
#61. Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace creates a stability that even Satan cannot undo.
Tony Evans
#62. I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.
Mark Wahlberg
#63. 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
#64. I believe that what it is I have been called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready.
Jan Phillips
#65. You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it
Saji Ijiyemi
#67. It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#68. All the hard times in your life was just preparation to help you appreciate the good times
Steven Aitchison
#69. Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?
Earl Nightingale
#70. The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.
John Smith
#71. My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.
John Edward
#72. Repenting and coming unto Christ through the covenants and ordinances of salvation are prerequisite to and a preparation for being sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost and standing spotless before God at the last day.
David A. Bednar
#73. 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
#74. In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
Venus Williams
#75. I'm used to wild creatures who don't like to be approached from behind."
He shot her a baleful glance. "How fortunate that your experience with animals has turned out to be such good preparation for marriage to me.
Lisa Kleypas
#76. Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
John Banville
#77. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future
Amitav Ghosh
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.
Joe Torre
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.
Maria Montessori
#85. 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
#87. The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .
Sidney Lumet
#88. What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.
A. Theodore Tuttle
#89. 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
#90. SAT scores play an important role in admissions, even though they are poor predictors of college performance.87 This benefits affluent students, who are far more likely to enroll in private test preparation and take the test multiple times to boost scores.
Elizabeth A. Armstrong
#91. What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.
Norman Mailer
#92. I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything we could to prepare.
Roseline Filion
#93. Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.
John C. Maxwell
#94. The (Complete) Formula for Getting Lucky: Preparation (personal growth) + Attitude (belief/mindset) + Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + Action (doing something about it) = Luck
Darren Hardy
#95. 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
#96. Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that's worth more to you than your fear.
Roy H. Williams
#97. Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another ... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing ... It's a funny thing, what I really hate yet I have to go through with it, is the preparation.
Philip Guston
#98. Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#99. But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
Nikolai Gogol
#100. On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.
Vladimir Kramnik
