Preparation Quotes

How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

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

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

The definition of success is total preparation.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.

Erase from your mind that your preparation must be perfect. Hard work + dedication = a shot at your dreams. Keep believing.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

Achievement is talent plus preparation

You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation.

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

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

I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. "Action" - and then do it.

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

Coaching is preparation.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Planning is bringing the future into the present.

The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.

To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

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

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.

The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

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.

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

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.

[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

Part of success is preparation on purpose.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.

Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! ... Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress...

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.