Preparing Quotes

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.

Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

But you can enjoy my next announcement. As soon as I am back at my office I will start preparing something new that I can show.

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.

This year is very difficult for me to run after I after I lose my fiancee. I'm not preparing very well. I have sadness in my heart.

There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

I don't think about it, 'Wow! I'm the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.' For me, this is my job. This is what I've been preparing to do. And I really want to win badly.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.

Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

The only way faith can be relevant is by preparing the mind to receive it.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

Thinking about death... clarifies your life!

For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

It [preparing for a role] is just like studying for a test and making the test easy; it makes it a lot of fun, especially when people enjoy it.

Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.