Preparation Quotes

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

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

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

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

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.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

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.

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

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

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

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.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.