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• We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Commitment, Miracle

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• The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.

  Thomas Dreier

  Years, Next, Wonderful Day

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• You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

  Harriet Martineau

  Future, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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• Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Death, Fall

  Alexander Pope, “Windsor Forest”

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• You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, War, Preparing For War

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• As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

  Peter Lynch

  Philosophy, Looks, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of cement felt like home. I folded my clothes and put them on the bench. I placed my water bottle under my starting block, and I dove in. Once again, I felt that ultimate state of transition, my feet no longer on the ground, my hands not yet in the water.

  Dara Torres

  Sports, Block, Spring

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• When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.

  Fred Couples

  Motivational, Sports, Strategy

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• An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Men, People

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• The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Real, Character

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• The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Coffee, Wine, Discovery

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.52, Editorial MAXTOR

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• The only thing that relieves pressure is preparation.

  Tom Kite

  Pressure

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• I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

  Mira Sorvino

  Play, Giving, Roles

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• We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for these games is motivation enough. I don't think that has anything to do with it at all.

  Barry Alvarez

  Motivation, Thinking, Games

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• I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.

  Pete Carroll

  Powerful, Hard Work, Over You

  Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth, Kristoffer A. Garin (2011). “Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion”, p.79, Penguin

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• The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.

  Hans Kmoch

  Play, Levers, Chess

  Hans Kmoch (2013). “Pawn Power in Chess”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  James Payn

  Men, Rights, Mind

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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

  Philippe Perrin

  Lasts, Psychological, Train

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• The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Ideas, Doe, Three

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• At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.

  Barry Trotz

  Important, Playoffs

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• The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

  Clare Short

  War, Hype, Suffering

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• Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Men, Hopeful

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.399, Aum Publications

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• A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

  Bernard Iddings Bell

  Education, Men, World

  1950 In Life,16 Oct.

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• I hunt because I love the entire process: the preparations, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woodslore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures. On most days spent in the woods, I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether or not I got anything: it has to do with how the day was spent.

  Fred Bear

  Taken, Home, Differences

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• They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.

  Josephine Hart

  Keys, Childhood, Soul

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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