Preparation Quotes

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.

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

I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.

Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.

I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.

In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

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.

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

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

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.

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.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.

I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.

My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye.

Success results when preparation meets opportunity.

Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

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

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

We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species.

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

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.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious, detailed work.

The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult the first time, I guess.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.