Preparation Quotes
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Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.
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No, there are no long stages of preparation through which you must pass; all things are now ready; there is nothing to hinder you from becoming a Christian this very hour. And, if any of you have been trying to make yourself better until you are weary and discouraged in the work, all you have to do is to put it into stronger hands.
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Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
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I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.
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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.
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And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.
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The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.
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The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.
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Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.
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Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.
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Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.
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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
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The only thing that relieves pressure is preparation.
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Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.
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There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.
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I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
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There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.
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Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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Every race is like training and preparation.
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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
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Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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I find it increasingly necessary to express my ideas first in engraving or lithography so that they may develop before I start to paint. Every year my form and expression become more sensitive, and my ideas frequently have to pass through three graphic stages before I can start on the canvas. I can hear you say no, that is impossible because the value of the colors demands quite different treatment from black and white, but it is the inner idea that I try to establish firmly through graphic preparation.
