Preparation Quotations

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

Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

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.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

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

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it.

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.

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

Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.

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

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

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.

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

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

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

The majority of my work is about preparation.

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

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!

I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

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

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt.

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

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

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.

The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

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 preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

I love soup 'cause I don't like to cook. It's so easy to prepare, and it fills you up and gives you all the nutrients you need. It's a well-balanced meal, but you don't have to do a lot of preparation.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

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

Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

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.

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

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

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

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

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

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.

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.

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

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.

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

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

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

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

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

To be the name on somebody's shirt that they've made themselves in preparation for one of your shows - it doesn't get much cooler than that.