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• ...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Responsibility, Waiting, Balance

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• I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

  Michelle Kwan

  Secret, Knows, Closest

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• Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

  Leopold Trepper

  Army, Red, Updates

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• 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.

  Tobey Maguire

  Fall, Creating, Different

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• Part of success is preparation on purpose.

  Jim Rohn

  Purpose

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 10, 2015

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• No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.

  Morgan Freeman

  Running, Believe, Reality

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". The Gardian Interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

  Zig Ziglar

  Spectacular, Performances

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• Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives.'

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Voice, Silence

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• Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

  Daley Thompson

  Doctors, Years, Long

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• That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.

  LeVar Burton

  Reading, Two, Three

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Voice, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  "An Interview with Kathryn Lasky about Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

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• Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

  J. B. Matthews

  Motivation, Men, Ridiculous

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• Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.

  David Robinson

  Basketball, Thinking, Games

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• I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bullying, Strong, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

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• The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Thinking, Finals, Ends

  "Director's Cut: Paolo Sorrentino ('The Great Beauty')". FILM.COM Interview, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2013.

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• You must be ready in mind, body, and spirit before you can make a change. People cannot convince you to do it. You cannot force you to do it. Everything you think, say, and do until that happens is just preparation. So love yourself right now. Honor yourself. Keep talking to yourself. Keep thinking ready thoughts. In the meantime, try to remember you will not be ready until you are ready.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Love You, Thinking, Remember You

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from May 05, 2016

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• We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no "either/or" here; it is always "both/and." These two things must go together.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Inspiration, Two, Together

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1972). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.305, Zondervan

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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.

  Dathan Ritzenhein

  Running, Thinking, Challenges

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• There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

  Don DeLillo

  War, Lying

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• I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

  John Steinbeck

  Wrath, Years, Grapes

  John Steinbeck (2006). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.38, Penguin

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• During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before every major competition, to become familiar with the angles. Then I can envision what it will look and feel like when I am the only one on the ice going into a combination jump, skating backwards or getting ready for my triple Lutz. I know exactly where I will be, and so when it comes time to actually perform my routine, ever step and element will be like deja vu.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Competition

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• ... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh of the Lord: for the true Wisdom did not dwell in another's building, but built for Itself that dwelling-place from the body of the Virgin.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, Dwelling Place, House

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• 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

  Heart, Winning, People

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• Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.

  John of the Cross

  Light, Darkness, Endurance

  Saint John of the Cross (1947). “The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church”

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