Preparation Quotes

• The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

  

  Alan Page
  • Success
  • Player
  • Preparation

• The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Powerful
  • Jobs
  • Complicated

• Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Prayer
  • Preparation

• If outer doors close seem to close to you, do not hesitate. Perist in inner preparations. The inner realm of thought controls all outer action. When you get the right attitude, the outer world of results and personalities must conform to it. That is the law of mind-action.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • World
  • Mind
  • Action

• The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

  

  Hayden Fry
  • College
  • Preparation
  • Valuable

• Preparation is based on one driving force for me and that is to be relaxed enough to be able to listen to what the candidates are saying and react appropriately.

  

  Jim Lehrer
  • Driving
  • Preparation

• The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Preparation

• Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Dying

• I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

  

  Kinky Friedman
  • Remember
  • Childhood
  • My Life

• Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Spring
  • Driven
  • Oppression

• I work a lot, and I prepare a lot. I think that's really important when you live in LA, to go the extra mile for whatever it is that you're trying to achieve. You realize out here that when you stop moving so fast, it's a lot harder than you thought. A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times. I think you just have to always present yourself at your best, and you just need to be prepared all the time. Looking good, and feeling good, and being positive, and being in the right set of mind to accept whatever comes your way.

  

  Leven Rambin
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Feelings

• Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Time
  • Death
  • Preparation

• The marathon has so many elements to prepare for. I think that is one reason I always want to come back for more. There is always something to change in your preparation and I am still trying to discover what I am capable of. I guess I just love the challenge.

  

  Dathan Ritzenhein
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Challenges

• I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Understanding

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

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Educational
  • Notion
  • Rejects

• I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Preparation
  • Marathon
  • Calisthenics

• Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Actors
  • Percent
  • Ninety

• The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life is
  • Preparation
  • Come

• And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Voice
  • Preparation
  • Requires

• The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.

  

  George H. Brimhall
  • Future
  • Present
  • Lived

• I have to drink wine before I go on stage. That is still part of the ritual, the ceremony. I usually go for a Cabernet or a Merlot. You're at the mercy of promoters who try to cut corners, so you don't always get the best wines in the world. But I look at the wine as being medicinal. It's not there to be enjoyed, it's part of my preparation for a show.

  

  Wayne Hussey
  • Cutting
  • Being
  • Ritual

• Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

  

  Shunryu Suzuki
  • Moment
  • Preparation
  • Last

• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Age
  • Drug
  • Addiction

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