Preparation Quotes

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

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

Part of success is preparation on purpose.

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

[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.

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

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

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.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.

Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

You can't put a price tag on preparation for a pandemic.

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement

Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.

Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

The only thing that relieves pressure is preparation.

If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.

I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.

hope for the best, prepare for the worst

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

I believe that what it is I have been called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready.

The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.

Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.