Top 100 Quotes About Preparing
#1. Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.
Ellen Sauerbrey
#2. I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.
Alafair Burke
#3. When preparing a presentation, it's never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you're focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.
Dale Ludwig
#4. Accept the process. Your blessing is already ready. It's already done. God is getting you ready for the blessing, preparing you for your destiny.
T.D. Jakes
#5. Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.
Ben Bernanke
#6. One of the students was a doctor, a German woman, and I used to watch her scouring garbage pails as though she were preparing a room for surgery.
Brother Andrew
#7. I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.
Tom Cruise
#8. Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#10. The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.
Billy Graham
#11. Instead of preparing to die, prepare to live in the midst of all the exaltations of the Gods
Brigham Young
#12. I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.
Sasha Cohen
#13. I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Ogden Nash
#14. For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.
Katherine Bernhardt
#15. A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C.S. Lewis
#16. I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.
Frank B. Kellogg
#17. Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and the restorer of all things important to building the kingdom of God and preparing for the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
L. Tom Perry
#18. Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous melody. In order to improvise, a player first needs to have memorized and analyzed the harmonic structure of so many pieces.
Jimmy Heath
#19. The frequency of automobile accidents is declining in North Carolina, but the severity of accidents involving bodily injury is rising in the state. That's something we will keep our eyes on in preparing our request next February.
Tim Lucas
#20. Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.
Joshua Chamberlain
#21. I cooked a little bit in my first movie; I did a movie called 'Made.' For the little kid in the movie, I do a scene where I'm preparing a pasta puttanesca. I always loved watching that scene.
Jon Favreau
#22. God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.
Oswald Chambers
#23. In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.
Dom Starsia
#25. When I'm at home and I'm preparing my own food, it's all gluten-free, or fish and it's healthy, but when I go to someone else's house, I'll eat what they put in front of me because I don't want to be an asshole.
Bryan Fuller
#26. Studies have found that preparing your own food is usually healthier and less expensive than buying fast food. But most people just don't have the time.
Eric Schlosser
#27. When the Holy Spirit calls your to fast, He is preparing you for what is ahead.
Jentezen Franklin
#28. Everything waited. The night was ending. The world was holding its breath, preparing to begin again.
Neil Gaiman
#29. The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.
Pal Benko
#30. But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.
Shane Claiborne
#31. In the poorest countries ... it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty ... and preparing another generation for ... leading their countries into real security.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#32. Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an unusual case in which the students are engaged in the performances, but the high stakes have been displaced onto the teachers who are preparing their charges for the exams.
James M. Lang
#33. Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity for
self-direction or the exhibition of the least glimmer of personal initiative.
Gustave Le Bon
#34. I will quote Cioran (who is not yet a classic but will become one): "While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. 'What good will it do you,' they asked, 'to know this tune before you die?
Italo Calvino
#35. All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
Sidney Lumet
#36. God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character.
Gordon Fee
#37. Of course, for a seaman, next to being actually at sea, the greatest enjoyment comes from preparing the boat for a voyage.
Robin Knox-Johnston
#38. To live with fake positive thoughts is suicide, but living with negative all your life is just preparing the trigger for to get shoot!
Deyth Banger
#39. I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.
Tom Berenger
#40. The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.
Bertrand Russell
#41. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
Olivia Jake
#42. And war is wonderful, isn't it?
For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step.
In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides.
Antonin Artaud
#43. God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.
Johnny Hunt
#44. Of preparing for defeat, prepare for victory. Prepare for increase. Prepare for God's favor. You have to set the tone at the start of each day.
Joel Osteen
#45. God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.
Dikembe Mutombo
#46. I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.
John C. Maxwell
#47. Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.
George Eliot
#48. Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.
Jean Shepherd
#49. Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
Buzz Aldrin
#50. The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.
Herbert Hoover
#52. If we use how we were taught yesterday to teach our children today, we are not preparing them well for tomorrow.
Daniel J. Siegel
#53. The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
V.S. Pritchett
#54. Half of bravery is perspective. The first time I did this, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks that most people will in a lifetime.
Veronica Roth
#55. A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
Scott Cook
#56. Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.
Natalie Portman
#57. They soared with ease, basking in electromagnetic rays from the star Sol, biding their time, grouping, preparing. The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment.
Douglas Adams
#58. When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
Stefan Zweig
#59. We insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
George Eliot
#60. But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.
Michael Shanks
#62. When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.
Will Ferrell
#63. We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions ... and we need to do it under tight control.
Wu Yi
#64. When I came back on the rink in 2012, I set a goal of wrapping up my career well rather than just winning medals. I'm not preparing for any special skills for Sochi because I don't feel like they are necessary.
Kim Yuna
#65. Find your "self-culture" is hero's work. I liken it to the journey of a warrior who is preparing for battle. There is no violence in the battle, but there is a plan of attack and a methodology that you need to employ to complete the journey. Page 12
Victoria Lorient-Faibish
#66. The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.
Leslie Bradshaw
#67. It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be.
Katherine Anne Porter
#68. I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
Elle Macpherson
#69. It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.
Alan Moore
#70. Everyday some people discover you! What good things have you got for them? Just like preparing a soup, prepare good things and keep them ready for the people who discover you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. the most basic rule of human discourse: when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster
Stephen King
#72. I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.
Julie Gayet
#73. Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.
Eric Ries
#74. This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
Francois Fenelon
#75. To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection
Raoul Vaneigem
#76. For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
Dario Fo
#77. Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute - it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect.
Dwayne Johnson
#78. The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.
Robert D. Hales
#79. failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.... Know who said that? Benjamin Franklin. That
C.C. Chapman
#80. I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.
Michael Zaslow
#81. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
Kiana Davenport
#82. Esteban took a step backwards and took his sweatshirt off. He folded it and placed it on the ground next to the wall. He looked like a matador preparing for a bullfight. I opened my mouth and almost said something ...
Jose N. Harris
#83. We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.
Billy Graham
#84. For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.
Elayne Boosler
#85. Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.
Alex Pettyfer
#86. Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.
Epictetus
#87. If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#88. The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#89. as I watched their approach I wondered whether the slow pace of a wedding march was for the benefit of a bride on her most beautiful day, or for the aging father preparing to give her away.
Nickolas Butler
#90. We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
Freeman Dyson
#91. The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.
Carlos Castaneda
#92. Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
John Bigelow
#93. Preparing and serving food had always been a joy, for it made her appreciate the abundance of the world.
Elizabeth Camden
#94. When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
Kate Atkinson
#95. Stuckley drew back his sword with evident satisfaction. "She really is your Achilles' heel, isn't she Furey?"
"No." Lorcan said, preparing his own attack. "Not my Achilles' heel.The love of my life. And I'll do whatever it takes to protect her.
Justin Somper
#96. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.
Marilynne Robinson
#97. When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1) "failure to include a current address," and (2) "failure to be a large industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing congresspersons."
Dave Barry
#98. Happiness like this is frightening ... they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you
Khaled Hosseini
#99. I feel the old dark gathering, the solitude preparing, by which I know myself, and the call of that ignorance which might be noble and is mere poltroonery.
Samuel Beckett
#100. In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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