Sayings About Good Preparation

#1. 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

#2. Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

Mark McKinnon

#3. Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

Pamela Sargent

#4. Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

Keith Best

#5. Life at a vile boarding school is in this way a good preparation for the Christian life, that it teaches one to live by hope.

C.S. Lewis

#6. Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich ... Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich ... The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.

Martin Amis

#7. Good preparation destroys all obstacles

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.

George Soros

#9. When I got home from school, I never knew which mood of my mom was gonna be on the other side of the door. I didn't know what I was gonna get when I turned the doorknob. That's very good preparation if you want to be a producer.

Gary Dell'Abate

#10. 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

#11. Good preparation is better then hope for a miracle.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. You've got to be dedicated to train as hard as you can, for as long as you can, because in any sport, and especially this environment, there's a lot of contact. It's all about conditioning and good preparation to keep your body in the best condition possible to play games.

Filo Tiatia

#13. Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

Hillary Clinton

#14. My real goal is the Olympics. It's going to be tough but it was very good preparation to play here.

Anastasia Myskina

#15. 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

#16. Torin had never been a great believer in luck, preferring to trust in training, preparation, and strong artillery support, but it was impossible to deny the good fortune that had caused them to crash precisely where they had.

Tanya Huff

#17. Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability ... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas A. Edison

#18. I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

#19. There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

Andrew Loomis

#20. I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

James Green Somerville

#21. The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

Pearl Bailey

#22. We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.

Michael Mann

#23. I felt good in all my fights. It's all in the preparation. I prepare myself for all of them. And I felt good in all my fights.

Juan Manuel Marquez

#24. Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.

David Deida

#25. The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living ...

Dione Lucas

#26. I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Jack Canfield

#27. I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

Sasha Alexander

#28. The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

Sachin Tendulkar

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

Nabil Basma

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

Robert A. Heinlein

#31. I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good.

Reggie Miller

#32. 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

#33. Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news.

Shannon L. Alder

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. life was good, but it was hard; we would prepare to meet it head on, but we would enjoy the preparation.

Pat Conroy

#37. Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

Margaret Fuller

#38. The state of convenience lies in the hands of proper planning. When you know this, you will become a good planner; and when you become a good planner, you save your life from stress!

Israelmore Ayivor

#39. One of the many pieces of advice his father had given him - besides the importance of antivenom and the need for a good, sturdy blade - was that field anthropology was ninety percent preparation, and ten percent trying desperately to recover when you didn't prepare properly.

Ben Mezrich

#40. To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

Bruce Lee

#41. The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

Neal A. Maxwell

#42. Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

#43. Contextualization is a good dance partner, but she should never be allowed to lead. Put her before the exegetical steps in your sequence of preparation, and problems will quickly emerge.

David R. Helm

#44. 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

#45. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin

#46. I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

Zona Gale

#47. All the hard times in your life was just preparation to help you appreciate the good times

Steven Aitchison

#48. The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .

Sidney Lumet

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.

David Baldacci

#52. Nightmares are not dreams. A good dream does not leave the dreamer in darkness, confusion and terror. Start having dreams, not nightmares!

Michael Bassey Johnson

#53. Preparation is good, but customers need results.

Ron Kaufman

#54. Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.

Tom Black

#55. I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial ... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

Winston S. Churchill

#56. We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.

M. Russell Ballard

#57. Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.

Fernando Alonso

#58. I feel like whatever you've done in your career, good or bad, it's nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Kevin Hart

#59. No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Daniel Webster

#60. 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

#61. Fight the good fight of faith; ignore all callings of doubt regardless of how loud they sound. Arm yourself always against disappointments by planning and preparing very well.

Israelmore Ayivor

#62. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Elbert Hubbard

#63. For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.

Stewart O'Nan

#64. Good luck is a residue of preparation.

Jack Youngblood

#65. I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

Jack O'Connell

#66. Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.

Arthur Lynch

#67. 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

#68. Just as foreplay is the key to good sex, preparation is essential to achieving victory in battle. Right, lieutenant?

Natalia Marx

#69. Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

David J. Schwartz

#70. Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

John Zorn