Preparation Quotes - Page 28

• The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Good Life, Life Is, Bad Times

  "Wherefore Ye Must Press Forward". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City), p. 32, 1977.

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• No, there are no long stages of preparation through which you must pass; all things are now ready; there is nothing to hinder you from becoming a Christian this very hour. And, if any of you have been trying to make yourself better until you are weary and discouraged in the work, all you have to do is to put it into stronger hands.

  Washington Gladden

  Christian, Hands, Long

  Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”

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• It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Military, Government, Political

  "The Three Phases of National Reconstruction". Essay by Sun Yat-sen, 1918.

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• Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you arrive on the professional scene, the cream tends to rise, regardless of what school you attended.

  Rachel Hoffman

  School, Training, Looks

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• Our confidence comes from our preparation.

  Ronaldinho

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• The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills.

  Jane Addams

  Book, Men, Way

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• It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

  Jane Addams

  Believe, Self, Promise

  Jane Addams (2010). “The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness”, p.601, University of Illinois Press

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• When poets - write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Thoughtful, Meals

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• [Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

  Eric Clapton

  Son, Cost, Want

  Eric Clapton (2010). “Eric Clapton: The Autobiography”, p.278, Random House

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• My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

  Ashley Scott

  Character, Pages, My Favorite

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• I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Facts, Life Is, Bigs

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• I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

  Cory Lidle

  Years, Rotation, Matter

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• Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

  Bill Joy

  Documents, Screens, Display

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• I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

  Patrice Leconte

  House, Rehearsal

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About “Intimate Strangers”". Interview with Ryan Mottesheard, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Self, Foundation

  Orison Swett Marden, G. R. Devitt (1901). “Success Library”

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• In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Memories, Self, Long

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Introduction, 1949.

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• When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Done, Fighter

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• To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Focus

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• Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Girl, Passion, Heart

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.256

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• This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, War, Past

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

  Hideki Tojo

  Communication, Technology, Progress

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• Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.

  Orlando Figes

  Nice, Military, War

  Orlando Figes (1997). “A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution”, Viking Pr

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• In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

  Roger Staubach

  Football, Results, Produce

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• Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Confidence, Believe, Winning

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• You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Success doesn't just suddenly occur one day in someone's life. Neither does failure. Each is a process. Every day of your life is merely preparation for the next. What you become is the result of what you do today.

  John C. Maxwell

  One Day, Doe, Today

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Make Today Count: The Secret of Your Success Is Determined by Your Daily Agenda”, p.7, Hachette UK

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