Preparation Quotes - Page 5

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.

If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

Anything worthy of your passion, should be worthy of your preparation.

(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.

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

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.

Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

If you will be humble and ask God what to do, I promise you that he will always prepare a way for your deliverance.

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a

When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.

Adversity is preparation for greatness.

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.

The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with compassion," and being now prepared to reach down and help us, he is forbidden because we won't let him. We look down instead of up.

I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.

This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us, as we are constantly told, but rather to sap our economic vitality and undermine our civil and economic liberties.

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.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

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

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.