Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
I know most Americans don't have this luxury, but we are in Los Angeles and are lucky enough to be able to grill outside almost all year long. It's my favorite way of preparation because it's so clean and it gives it such a great flavor. You need very little oil and the protein can be really cleanly prepared and perfectly cooked.
I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.
As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.
I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.
My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
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