Preparation Quotes - Page 24

• I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to refocus and get ready for the 200 meters on Friday. After this I have the 4×100-meter and a few other races before the end of the season.

  Usain Bolt

  Sports, Friday, Moving

  "Cuban Robles stripped of gold as more drama grips Daegu" by Ossian Shine, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

  Idries Shah

  Talking, Broken, Camels

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.134, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Book, Reading, Doe

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• There is a time and a place for creativity.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Creativity, Freedom Of Speech, Pink Panther

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• When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Reflection, Doubt, Levels

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• For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

  James Spader

  Play, Research, Television

  "Q&A: James Spader repeats history in 'Lincoln'". Interview with Amanda Meyncke, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2012.

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• Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.

  Melissa Bean

  Country, India, Irs

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• My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Husband, Military, Perspective

  "Q&A – Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. November 2010.

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• My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, Feelings, Might

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• Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Character, Way, Losing

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• A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

  Jesse James Garrett

  People, Giving, Shapes

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.

  Sam Elliott

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

  Michael Chang

  Blow, Thinking, Feet

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• I love soup 'cause I don't like to cook. It's so easy to prepare, and it fills you up and gives you all the nutrients you need. It's a well-balanced meal, but you don't have to do a lot of preparation.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Giving, Needs, Soup

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• For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.

  Logan Lerman

  Believe, Character, Able

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• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Team, Race, Games

  "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• I'm mentally getting myself ready to talk about it all year long because I know it's going to come. My main focus is not to really concentrate on that... So many things have to line up, to be healthy and consistent for so many games, to get to that point. I know as we get closer we're going to talk about it more. But believe me, when it's done, if it gets done, it will be a huge achievement and I'm definitely going to soak it in. But at this time, it's not at the top of my mind.

  Anthony Calvillo

  Sports, Believe, Years

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• It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.

  Sidney Crosby

  Sports, Play, Expectations

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• ... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Learning, Exercise

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

  Anthony Mackie

  Opportunity, Long, Way

  "Actor Anthony Mackie". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 3, 2011.

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• The Lord has made available in our day remarkable resources that enable you to learn about and love this work that is sparked by the Spirit of ElijahIt is no coincidence that FamilySearch and other tools have come forth at a time when young people are so familiar with a wide range of information and communication technologies. Your fingers have been trained to text and tweet to accelerate and advance the work of the Lord-not just to communicate quickly with your friends. The skills and aptitude evident among many young people today are a preparation to contribute to the work of salvation.

  David A. Bednar

  Communication, Technology, Skills

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• Amoebas are quite obviously widely spread protozoans and some of them have been established as causing serious disease in animals and humans. It is also quite well-established that amoebas are important contaminants of tissue cultures used in preparation of live biologicals, vaccines being the most important of them because they are widely injected into small babies and children.

  Viera Scheibner

  Baby, Children, Animal

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• Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Self, Ethical

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.23, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

  Edi Gathegi

  Thinking, Imagination, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• EARTH LIFE with its joys and sorrows is a necessary part of our eternal existence. Its purposes are to prepare us to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father and to provide the way whereby we may receive a fulness of joy.

  Alma P Burton

  Life, Father, Joy

  Alma P. Burton, Clea M. Burton (1966). “For They Shall Be Comforted”, p.30, Cedar Fort

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