Preparation Quotes - Page 17

• Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

  Kurt Browning

  Fun, Skating, Pressure

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• As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Men, Sitting, Gestures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours. We'll even let him have an hour or so of preparation before we open up. Within 8 hours, the money will be gone, the store will be empty, and he'll be explaining how three 11-year olds came in and asked for the money and he gave it to them.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Fun, Years

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• To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I can show the animal in its best light, demonstrating its beauty, strength and intelligence.

  Paul Nicklen

  Animal, Light, Mystery

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• The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

  John Lanchester

  Planning, Seven, Poor

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.308, Faber & Faber

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• The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

  Kate Capshaw

  People, Library, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.

  Wallace Stegner

  Writing, Ambition, School

  "On Teaching and Writing Fiction".

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• I was just glad I've got an opponent, to be honest. This is my third opponent for this fight prep. [I'm over the moon] to be fighting in my hometown and I just didn't want that taken away. The fact that they've got me a new opponent, I'm not bothered who it is. I just focus on what I can control in my preparation and that's all I've got to worry about. My opponent changes but they're all great fighters in the UFC. Doesn't matter who you step in there with, it's going to be a tough fight.

  Richie Vaculik

  Workout, Taken, Fighting

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• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  War, Causes, Causes Of War

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school.

  Thucydides

  Lying, Believe, School

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Heart, Needs, Speak

  "Mina von Barnhelm" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, V. 4, September 30, 1767.

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• This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

  Richard Baxter

  Perfection, This Life

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.254

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• What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Men, People

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• American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Son, Careers, People

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

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• Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on the contrary, whilst terror and bloodshed reign in the land, involving men's minds in the extremities of hopes and fears, there can be no process of thought, no education going on, by which alone can a people be prepared for the enjoyment of rational liberty.

  Richard Cobden

  War, Mean, Men

  Richard Cobden (1835). “England, Ireland, and America”, p.44

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• Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  People, Heaven, Far Away

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1947). “Systematic Theology”

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• Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Wedding, Married, Idealistic

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• Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don't value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?

  Doris Grumbach

  Depression, Baby, Book

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Extra Innings: A Memoir”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.

  James C. Collins

  Success, Leadership, Humility

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• Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Work, Men

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.129, Transaction Publishers

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• Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

  Paul Brown

  Football, Keys, Littles

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• Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Political, Society, Criminals

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• When we work so hard at our preparations for Christmas, we often feel cheated and frustrated when others fail to notice the results of our efforts. We need to ask ourselves why we are doing the things we choose to do. If love motivates us-love for our families, for our neighbors - then we are free to simply enjoy the actual process of what we do, rather than requiring the approval and admiration of others for the results of our labors.

  Ellyn Sanna

  Christmas, Effort, Frustrated

  Ellyn Sanna, Barbour Bargain Books (2002). “May the Peace of Christ Be Yours This Season”, Barbour Publishing

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• Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

  Francis Stokes

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

  John Smith

  Success, Sports, Regret

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