Quentin Persifor Smith (Quentin Smith) Quotes
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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.
F. Murray Abraham -
I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.
Patricia Millett -
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
Pamela Sargent -
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Patrick Stewart -
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.
Paolo Sorrentino -
I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.
Edi Gathegi
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
Ralph Ellison -
I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Venus Williams -
A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
Dan Gable -
I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
Samuel Johnson
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
Zig Ziglar -
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.
Laurel Clark -
My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.
Anne Graham Lotz -
I've put myself in the best possible positions through my daily training and my recovery processes and my offseason regimen and preparation. I break down when I have these freak injuries happen, when the hard work is basically thrown out.
Blake Griffin -
I'd rather starve than not have what I really want to eat. I'm good at preparation.
Johnny Mathis -
My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.
Cicely Tyson
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis -
Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?
Seth Godin -
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
James Dyson -
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
Abba Eban -
Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation
Quentin Persifor Smith