Preparation Quotes

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

Everything you need to know about a customer has been written by them or about them. And it lives on the Internet. All you have to do is uncover it. And use it.

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

Everyone who got where he is started where he was.

Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could in an instant.

The preparation for the ritual is the ritual.

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

The real preparation for [Christ's] return is not to act like we know it's coming right now and do something different. It's to do what we should have been doing all along.

I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.

We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

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

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.

In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

I've always been one to arrive early for work; preparation is a big part of how I work, and I like to be in my office going through plans for the upcoming training sessions or meetings I have.

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

There’s no preparation for poetry.

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.

India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.

It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.

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

When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.

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.

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.