Preparation Quotes

Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.

To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

Our confidence comes from our preparation.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them.

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

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.

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

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.

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

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

Separation comes from preparation.

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?'

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

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.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

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

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

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

Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.

We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no "either/or" here; it is always "both/and." These two things must go together.

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.

Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in 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.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.

Proper preparation prevents poor performance.

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.

Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.