Best 467 quotes in «preparation quotes» category

You can’t prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.

You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it

You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

You do not wake up one morning to change the world. You train for it; this kind of preparation takes a life time. Anybody can become exceedingly great.

You have to prepare physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to conquer any mountain.

You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.

Your downfall is a preparation for your up-rise. If you don’t know this secret, you will remain on the floor, blaming your legs instead of your head!

You want to speed up the game, don't let the ball go out of bounds.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

You were never born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Don't think that way. You were born with a diamond spoon in your palm. Carry it by your own hand. Now, feed yourself

Achievement is talent plus preparation

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

A key factor is to do training that is fun.

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...

... All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in order to be prepared for the higher astral world after death.

All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

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

And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.

Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's a misinterpretation of life to live it only in preparation for the next one. To subordinate the one you've got to an indefinite next round is foolish. It's a waste of this life not to live this life. What's next is anybody's guess.

A winning effort begins with preparation.

Audience interest is directly proportionate to the presenter's preparation. You better spend time and energy on any presentations where the stakes are high. If you are trying to close a large sale or speak at a conference to an audience of potential clients, you better be ON your game. An audience can tell how much energy you spent on your presentation, which is a reflection of how much you valued their time. If they gave you an hour of their time, you need to make it worth it to them by treating their time as a valuable asset by making the content valuable to them.

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

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.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

Coaching is preparation.

Confidence is preparation in action.

Death frames the high wire. But I don’t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.