Quotes About Preparing

#1. I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.

Rahul Dravid

#2. I read the first book about five times while I was preparing for the role. I really wanted to completely embody Lissa and, naturally the book gave me much deeper psychological and emotional insight into Lissa than the script.

Lucy Fry

#3. The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

Washington Irving

#4. I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that's what counts. That's why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.

Bernard Hopkins

#5. I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that way.

Terry Gross

#6. Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

William Faulkner

#7. If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Patrick White

#8. Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

Carlos Ghosn

#10. The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

Matt Chandler

#11. 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

#12. Dear Judy Blume, why didn't you write a book about how to survive talking to your centuries-old, super-duper experienced, smoking-hot soul mate about sex for the first time ever? That book would have been extremely helpful in preparing me for this incredibly awkward situation.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#13. He puts his arm around me, the lights dancing on his dark skin constantly skipping across to mine, planting a myriad of emotions into each pore as if preparing my heart for tilling.

Poppet

#14. On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

Gary Locke

#15. When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

Alison Jackson

#16. There are moments you wait for. And then there are moments you wait for. Moments you spend every other moment preparing for. Points of your life that click and turn. Push you in a completely new direction.

Ryan Graudin

#17. For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are being prepared, not preparing the Kingdom; that is to say, the Kingdom merits the sons, not the songs the Kingdom. So all hell merits and prepares its children rather than they it.

Martin Luther

#18. Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

Ann Voskamp

#19. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

Lorene Cary

#20. Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteen's 'If I Should Fall Behind' for a wedding and was unable to get through it without tears. My wife handed me 'Love You Forever.' I read it. I cried. But that cry somehow cured me of crying while singing the song. Go figure.

Clyde Edgerton

#21. PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

Ambrose Bierce

#22. By a merging and interplay of identities between himself and his beautiful room, he might be preparing a ghost for the future; it had not occurred to him that there might have been a similar merging and coalescence in the past. Oliver Onions The Beckoning Fair One

Adam Nevill

#23. Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

Edwin Newman

#24. I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

Junot Diaz

#25. Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.

Kenneth Boa

#26. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

Jeff Goins

#27. [Christ] will come again. But we must look to Scripture, not human thought, for our guide to preparing.

David Jeremiah

#28. Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Simon Van Der Meer

#29. Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

Kim Harrison

#30. The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

Maria Montessori

#31. You're always preparing yourself for the thing that is most likely to happen, instead of hoping for the thing that you most want to happen.

Emery Lord

#32. I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#33. When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

Garry Kasparov

#34. That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she over-sleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.

Edith Wharton

#35. Napoleon, true to his word, began the work of preparing Haiti for the transfer of former American slaves, about a third the number of them as there had been prior to the uprisings and reprisals.

Billy Roper

#36. Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

Thomas Menino

#37. Our whole life we are preparing for a journey to paradise, but we are walking through the paradise if we can realize it, see the beauty and see the miracles and enjoy it.

Debasish Mridha

#38. What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'

Michelle Obama

#39. 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

#40. I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

Shauna Niequist

#41. In baseball, I don't fraternize with players when it's time to hit. I'm preparing for the game. It's the most important time of the day. And I know if I don't hit, I won't have a job in the big leagues. That's why I tend to get very upset when people try to talk to me.

Albert Belle

#42. Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#43. Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

#44. It took me a while to realize that's just your body preparing you to do something.

Jesse Brock

#45. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#46. Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy

Ralph Ellison

#47. This year is very difficult for me to run after I after I lose my fiancee. I'm not preparing very well. I have sadness in my heart.

Kenenisa Bekele

#48. There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

Viswanathan Anand

#49. In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level decisions being made by adults.

Adora Svitak

#50. A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Winston Churchill

#51. And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Umberto Eco

#52. At that moment Fr. Sophrony was preparing tea for Fr. Vladimir, and he replied, 'Stay on the verge of despair, but when you see that you are going to fall over, draw back and have a cup of tea.' And he handed him some tea.

Archimandrite Zacharias

#53. If our purpose of life is live in peace and happiness, then why are we always preparing for war?

Debasish Mridha

#54. Courage wasn't a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worry about whether some step in the future would be the one that would break him.

Timothy Zahn

#55. I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

Ulysses S. Grant

#56. To succeed consistently, good managers need to be skilled not just in choosing, training, and motivating the right people for the right job, but in choosing, building, and preparing the right organization for the job as well.

Clayton M Christensen

#57. The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

Irenaeus Of Lyons

#58. Never taste or consume food that looks or smells contaminated or even slightly questionable. If the food item or drink has foam on top, if the item continuously bubbles from within, or a bad small emanates from it during cooking or preparing you should discard it right away.

Susan Burnetter

#59. The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

Alan Dershowitz

#60. I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.

Cus D'Amato

#61. Education has increasingly been reduced to job training, preparing young people not for responsible adulthood and citizenship but for expert servitude to the corporations.

Wendell Berry

#62. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

#63. In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.

Shalane Flanagan

#64. Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

Maurice Jarre

#65. Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

Daniel Suarez

#66. God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all the resources of the universe in order that the work you do may be a part of His whole great and gracious work.

G. Campbell Morgan

#67. The Bible has much to say about the brevity of life and the necessity of preparing for eternity. I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

Billy Graham

#68. All of this material on key length block size and the number of rounds of encryption may seem dreadfully boring; however, it's important material, so be sure to brush up on it while preparing for the exam.

James M. Stewart

#69. She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.

Anthony Marra

#70. As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Adam Sandler

#71. What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'

Alison Gopnik

#72. I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

Autumn Reeser

#73. I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.

Terry Goodkind

#74. Life never follows your plan.
The truth was you could spend countless hours planning and preparing, and the only thing you could count on once you'd got your plan set was that it would be the one way things won't happen.

Penelope Douglas

#75. People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.

Francis Chan

#76. Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

Paul Cellucci

#77. apparently preparing to put an end to their

Phyllis A. Humphrey

#78. I'm always fighting to make the team anyway. I'm always preparing like I'm one of the bottom guys, trying to make the team.

Champ Bailey

#79. Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did.

Peter James West

#80. Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

Boris Yeltsin

#81. God is preparing you for greater things. He's going to take you further than you thought possible, so don't be surprised when He asks you to think better of yourself and to act accordingly.

Joel Osteen

#82. In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.

Joe Bastianich

#83. As we step into our life's work, we discover that we have been preparing for this our whole lives, even though in that very moment we feel insufficient.

Jeff Goins

#84. God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.

A.B. Simpson

#85. Success comes as a result of preparing oneself for inspiration, and then being willing to pay attention to it and do what it says. I've learned that before I make big decisions, I must first have a clear picture in mind and on paper of the outcome I am seeking.

Leslie Householder

#86. Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

Brian Stann

#87. Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.

Nancy Duarte

#88. October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.

Trey Gowdy

#89. AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

Ambrose Bierce

#90. He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him.

Rick Moody

#91. Bullies will knock you to your knees then tell you to get up and fight. Stay on your knees because God is there with you and is preparing an army to fight for your right to live.

Shannon L. Alder

#92. There is no greater illusion than fear,
no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself,
no greater misfortune than having an enemy.

Lao-Tzu

#93. While people will do a good job in preparing something for the board's consumption, they will do a great job if they know that material will be shared with the entire company.

Eric Schmidt

#94. I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so ...

Jake Gyllenhaal

#95. There are so many opportunities where people are thirsting: young people who are preparing for Confirmation, young adults who are searching, people of every age. There's a great thirst, I think, of people to come to understand and to belong to the Church of Christ.

Joseph Edward Kurtz

#96. I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. - I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.

Lucy Fry

#97. Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Robin Marantz Henig

#98. He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Arthur Henderson

#99. The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

Max Anders

#100. Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.

Antonio Tabucchi