Quotes About Preparation

#1. Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.

Norman Cousins

#2. Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

Tina Fey

#3. I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

Edwin Moses

#4. At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

Tony Dungy

#5. The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.

Hans Kmoch

#6. I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.

Scarlett Johansson

#7. Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

J. Reuben Clark

#9. After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.

A. J. Jacobs

#10. I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#11. His whole life had been merely a long preparation for misfortune,

Stendhal

#12. Books alone were not adequate preparation for life - as Mary was herself discovering. And by pointing this out, she was pointing a finger at those, like her father and Shelley, who sometimes insisted otherwise

Dorothy Hoobler

#13. Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

Mark Cuban

#14. Coaching is preparation.

Pete Carril

#15. What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

Lois Lowry

#16. I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.

Ray Nitschke

#17. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork, and learning from failure-

Colin Powell

#18. You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

Twyla Tharp

#19. But there was still no preparation for seeing him here, spread-eagled, broken: the greatest wizard Harry had ever, or would ever, meet.

J.K. Rowling

#20. While God can work through us in spite of our mistakes, incompetence, and lack of preparation, he commends skill and uses it for his glory.

Bob Kauflin

#21. 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

#22. When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment.

Sara Blakely

#23. War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

Oscar Arias

#24. I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.

Andrea Riseborough

#25. Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

Sean Hampton

#26. We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.

Anthony Trollope

#27. Believe in the hard work. Believe in the preparation. It's not a matter of if it'll work; it's a matter of when.

Tony Sparano

#28. 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

#29. Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...

T. S. Eliot

#30. Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation

Nabil Basma

#31. Let holy preparation link hands with patient expectation, and we shall have far larger answers to our prayers.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#32. Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school's curriculum.

David Lynch

#33. Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

Shia Labeouf

#34. good luck' follows careful preparation; 'bad luck' comes from sloppiness.

Robert A. Heinlein

#35. have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparation moments or be a patient after preparation moments

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#36. A happy childhood ... is the worst possible preparation for life.

Kinky Friedman

#37. Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#38. 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

#39. Preparation is the biggest key right now.

Vince Young

#40. Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.

Connie Kerbs

#41. Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.

Chris Hadfield

#42. In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.

Ben Whishaw

#43. The only thing that helps you win the game is preparation and getting your mind ready to go to battle. That's what you've got to do.

Mark Richt

#44. everything is interim. Every season that I thought was stable and would be just how it was for a long time ended up being a preparation or a path to the next thing. When you decide to be on this journey with God, everything is interim.

Shauna Niequist

#45. 'The Dance Scene' is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.

Laurieann Gibson

#46. 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

#47. The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Bruce Barton

#48. A certain degree of preparation for war ... affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

James Madison

#49. In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

Major Owens

#50. I've decided it's not about me at all. It's a protective mechanism for them, a way of buffering themselves against my future death, like when teenagers distance themselves from their parents in preparation for leaving home.

Sara Gruen

#51. We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

Jim Leyland

#52. The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

Paolo Sorrentino

#53. There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Robert A. Heinlein

#54. With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

Placido Domingo

#55. Seeking out diverse experiences is useful preparation for leadership.

Sheryl Sandberg

#56. 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

#57. At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.

Barry Trotz

#58. 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

#59. My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!

Boris Spassky

#60. Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Hypatia

#61. You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

Rumi

#62. Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

Kurt Browning

#63. Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.

Rumi

#64. Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

Edwin Moses

#65. Part of success is preparation on purpose.

Jim Rohn

#66. I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey

#67. Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

Robert M. Hutchins

#68. The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

Gaston Bachelard

#69. Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

Oswald Chambers

#70. An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

Apolo Ohno

#71. Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives.'

Pope Benedict XVI

#72. We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way.

Surya Das

#73. A winning effort begins with preparation.

Joe Gibbs

#74. Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.

John Wooden

#75. A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn.

Todd Stocker

#76. To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

Kaskade

#77. When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#78. Try to get into the habit of dealing with your dishes immediately after using them. If doing the dishes is just as much a part of mealtime as food preparation and eating, you'll soon find that the dish problem isn't that much of a problem after all. WASH,

Rachel Hoffman

#79. The effectiveness of your ministry to people will be in direct proportion to the time you spend away from people and with God in a quiet time of preparation.

Elizabeth George

#80. Abundance is a direct reflection of your preparation to live abundantly. People who are ready for abundance keep their heads up, their eyes open and give thanks for everything they get.

Iyanla Vanzant

#81. The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

Rudolf Arnheim

#82. The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

Rolf Potts

#83. Clarity! Accuracy! Think of your words as a key to fit into the lock of your meaning. Cast them with precision. That key should then be swift and perfect in achieving its aim. Well shaped talk is a release from the indefinite. It is explanation. Preparation. Nothing more.

Jane Borodale

#84. In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

Roger Staubach

#85. She showed that alertness, that swiftness of reflection comes out in men before a battle, in conflict, in the dangerous and decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all his value, and that all his past has not been wasted but has been a preparation for these moments.

Leo Tolstoy

#86. Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.

Sri Chinmoy

#87. It's so easy to relax, to cut corners, to let down after you've reached your goal, and begin thinking you can just "turn it on" automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there.

John Wooden

#88. Pressure comes from a lack of preparation

Colin Kaepernick

#89. Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.

William Torrey Harris

#90. 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

#91. Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance

Nancy Pelosi

#92. he knew from studying maps in preparation: the broad avenues leading to the Brandenburg Gate. He had played Bach's Brandenburg Concertos records many times, intricate magic alive in the air. The gate that led to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel.

Gregory Benford

#93. Unsaid was her conviction that all this was in preparation for some future endeavor. But what?

Sam Wellman

#94. 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

#95. Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you've learned, but in the questions you've learned how to ask yourself.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#96. Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.

Gail Collins

#97. To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

Maria Montessori

#98. 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

#99. A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

Jesse James Garrett

#100. I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Omar Epps