Preparation Quotes

He who fails to understand that one should prepare for every single blessing will reap the problems connected with lack of preparation before the blessing.

~ Sunday Adelaja

My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.

~ Stellan Skarsgard

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

~ James Monroe

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

~ Robert M. La Follette

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

~ Clare Short

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

~ Confucius

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

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

~ William Osler

Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.

~ Dominick Cruz

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.

~ Tim Howard

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

~ Conor Mcgregor

All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.

~ Marie Curie

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

~ Bruce Barton

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

~ Stanislav Grof

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

~ Calvin Trillin

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

~ Robin S. Sharma

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

~ Harriet Martineau

Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

~ Eliyahu Goldratt

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

~ Pierre Trudeau

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

~ Stuart Pearce

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

~ Roger Maris

Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'm just basically focused on what I need to do. There's a lot that goes into this - diet, preparation, assembling the right people around you, sparring partners, coaches, etc. - so I'm not enjoying anything.

~ Alistair Overeem

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

~ Harold E. Varmus

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

~ Joe Torre

Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation.

~ Alain De Botton

Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

~ Debi Mazar

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

~ Henri Matisse

It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

~ Dan Quinn

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

~ John Dewey

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

~ Gail Godwin

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

~ Robert H. Schuller

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!

~ Alice Englert

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

~ Alexander Graham Bell

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

~ Graeme Le Saux

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

~ George Macdonald