Preparation Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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

Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.

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

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

Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Education is preparation to live completely.

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.

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.

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

Proper preparation prevents poor performance.

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.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

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.