Preparation Quotes
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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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Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.
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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.
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Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
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The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you.
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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.
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The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.
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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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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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I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
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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.
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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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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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.
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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.
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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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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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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Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.
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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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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.
