Preparation Quotes - Page 9

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.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

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...

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

Part of success is preparation on purpose.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.

The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.

The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues.

Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.

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

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.