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• Listening to music as preparation or background for your work brings you into a creative mood... choose one type of music to calm down, another to reach a higher energy level, depending on the artwork you are doing.

  Nita Leland

  Music, Creative, Listening

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.14, North Light Books

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• What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

  Lucien Febvre

  Men, Joy

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• War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

  Oscar Arias

  War, Two, Progress

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• I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

  Robert Barron

  Thinking, Revolution, Advent

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• I approach every week the same. I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

  Tom Brady

  Thinking, Games, Important

  "Tom Brady on Deflategate, Gisele and Donald Trump". Interview with John Carucci, www.boston.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Good preparation is key for me. Nowadays everyone is an actor slash writer, slash this, slash that, its cool; and you can only go so far on pure talent so you also need to know your craft well. I directed tons of shorts in college and acted in a slew of non paying acting work. You just have to be prepared. Period.

  Jaime Zevallos

  College, Keys, Acting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Pressure

  "Colin Kaepernick gets back to work" by Eric Branch, www.sfgate.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith

  Michael Scofield

  Leap Of Faith, Leap

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• 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

  Football, Successful, Player

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• Scouting contributes to a boy's preparation to hold the priesthood of God. Scout leaders have a sacred responsibility. They help boys learn Scouting principles that also help them live the gospel. We thank each leader as they foster faith in Christ and prepare boys to make temple covenants and become a missionary, husband, and father.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Husband, Father, Responsibility

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• I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation. I like to just go out and do it. Of course, that doesn't mean actors are free to do whatever they like, they're always being directed.

  Patrice Leconte

  Mean, Actors, Rehearsal

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.

  Michael Chabon

  Character, World, Imagine

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to clean the body from slag. A temporary abstinence from meat or animal food is indicated only for very specific magic operations as a sort of preparation, and even then only for a certain period. All this is to be considered with respect to sexual life.

  Franz Bardon

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Magic

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• The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Responsibility, Training

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• If it wasn't for her literally doing my homework for me, I would not have even graduated high school. Guaranteed . . . My mom always said, 'Luck is nothing but preparation and opportunity.' I think because I've had that history of not really being great in school, I probably try to overcompensate. That's why I try to read so many books. Just so I don't feel . . . uneducated.

  Channing Tatum

  Mom, Book, School

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• Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

  Eugene Linden

  Taken, Matter, Granted

  Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.111, Penguin

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• Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

  Jane Espenson

  Opportunity, Luck, Plus

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• I've always been fortunate in that I'm quite good at what I do, but there have been many people who have made it to the high level and they weren't necessarily the fastest runner in their class at school. Concentrate on yourself. It's down to planning, preparation and being dedicated.

  Jenny Meadows

  School, Class, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Communication, Needs, Speak

  Quoted in Josephus Daniels, TheWilson Era: Years of War and After (1946) See Pascal 1; Thoreau 34

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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'.

  Terence McKenna

  Buddhist, Mean, Skills

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• If you've done your preparation and you know the team of people that you're working with, then it makes life an awful lot easier. I still get nervous all the time. I think the best thing to do is to take a deep breath, make it simple, know what you're talking about, don't try and be fancy, don't try and be clever and just enjoy the experience.

  Jill Douglas

  Clever, Team, Simple

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, War, World

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• Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Army, Odds, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

  Callie Khouri

  Mean, Opportunity, Luck

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• I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Believe, Opportunity, Luck

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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