Preparation Quotes - Page 10

• Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

  Jane Espenson

  Opportunity, Luck, Plus

  4 Copy quote

• No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

  Bertrand Russell

  Loyalty, Organization, States

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.173, Psychology Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  25 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.

  Andrea Riseborough

  Voice, Schedules, Hearing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Jobs, Knowing, Accepting

  Source: www.believermag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  33 Copy quote

• To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

  Maria Montessori

  School, Views, Needs

  261 Copy quote

• 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.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.

  Timberlake Wertenbaker

  Excellent, Laughed

  Timberlake Wertenbaker (2014). “The Ash Girl”, p.59, Faber & Faber

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening preparations and observed a moment: One of the cleaners stopped, puzzled, in front of the Picassos. I think that this is an image that can be universally understood, but with a grain of salt. I never chose this image in edits before because it seemed to me that it felt posed-the composition was a little too perfect. But, believe me, it was a lucky moment.

  Micha Bar-Am

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, Angle, Prepared

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.99, Diversion Books

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.

  Nita Leland

  Real, Exercise, Artist

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Trying, Firsts, Kind

  Source: deadline.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

  Callie Khouri

  Mean, Opportunity, Luck

  7 Copy quote

• We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

  Jim Leyland

  Team, Winning, Games

  15 Copy quote

• From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,
  The hum of either army stilly sounds,
  That the fixed sentinels almost receive
  The secret whispers of each other's watch.
  Fire answers fire, and through their play flames
  Each battle sees the other's umbered face.
  Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
  Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
  The armorers accomplishing the knights,
  With busy hammers closing rivets up,
  Give dreadful note of preparation.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Army, Night

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  18 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Marathon, Ends

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  11 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source