Preparation Quotes - Page 35

• Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Science, Differences, Medicine

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• The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is subjected to certain mechanical and, mainly, chemical processing, and then, through innumerable side-streets, it is brought into the depot of the body. Aside from this basic series of institutions, along which the raw material moves, there is a series of lateral chemical manufactories, which prepare certain reagents for the appropriate processing of the raw material.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Moving, Science, Long

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• A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

  Edwin Land

  Acceptance, Science, World

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• It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.

  Napoleon Hill

  Sure Thing, Ifs

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.63, Penguin

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• The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Negative, Steel

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• There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Happy, Health

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• The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Funny Work

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• There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price.

  H. L. Hunt

  Life, Success, Entrepreneur

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• Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Rights, Demand, Acquire

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  Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

  Lou Holtz

  Ordinary, Doe, Today

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• Everyone who got where he is started where he was.

  John C. Maxwell

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

  Cus D'Amato

  Hero, Fire, Coward

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• Education is preparation to live completely.

  Herbert Spencer

  Education

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• Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.

  William Torrey Harris

  Education, Men, Appreciate

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• Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Prepared

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• I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly towards a world federation of peaceful nations. How will this be possible? Don't ask me. I don't know. But unless we develop a moral, spiritual, and political wisdom that is proportionate to our technological skill, our skill may end us.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Peace

  Thomas Merton (1995). “Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• O Lord, Thou knowest that which is best for us; let this or that be done, as Thou shalt please. Give what Thou wilt, how much Thou wilt, and when Thou wilt. Deal with me as thou thinkest best. Place me where Thou wilt, and deal with me in all things just as Thou wilt. Behold, I am Thy servant, prepared for all things: I desire not to live unto myself, but unto Thee; and oh, that I could do it worthily and perfectly!

  Thomas a Kempis

  Giving, Justice, Desire

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• What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Past, Done, Youth

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• No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.

  Anthony Eden

  Work, Justice, Long

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• Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

  Robert Browning

  Adventure, Two, Pearls

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• To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Equilibrium, Bases, Prepared

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

  Pearl Bailey

  Cooking, Ingredients, Facts

  Pearl Bailey (1973). “Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook”, Harcourt

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• In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.

  Charlie Morton

  Moments, Initiative, Crisis

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• Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summer's catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didn't cause these fires, but their policies have left the Forest Service under-funded and under-prepared for this crisis. I don't think it's a conspiracy, but it's a philosophy they have that leads to explosive fires that destroy everything.

  Marc Racicot

  Summer, Philosophy, Thinking

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• We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Leader, Pace, Be Prepared

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