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• Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

  Andre Gide

  Unique, Joy, Mindfulness

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• NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Secret, Ingredients

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beauty, Kindness, Bait

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2361, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

  John Banville

  Long, Leaving, Life Is

  John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• We are never prepared for what we expect.

  James A. Michener

  Hmmm, Prepared, Hmm

  James A. Michener (2014). “Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan”, p.61, Dial Press

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• Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

  Randy Pausch

  Opportunity, Luck, Last Lecture

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

  Carol S. Dweck

  Real, Team, Believe

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.97, Random House

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• It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hurt, School, Character

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• People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

  Gary Chapman

  Divorce, Intimate Relationships, Skills

  Gary Chapman (2010). “Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married”, p.10, Moody Publishers

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• The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successful. In fact, many couples give far more attention to making plans for the wedding than making plans for marriage. The wedding festivities last only a few hours, while the marriage, we hope, will last for a lifetime

  Gary Chapman

  Couple, Successful, Impact

  Gary Chapman (2010). “Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married”, p.10, Moody Publishers

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• With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

  George Eliot

  Time, Memories, Past

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.536, 谷月社

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• So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Routine, Genius

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• The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Business, War

  "The Art of War". Chapter I: Detail Assessment and Planning. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.

  Ralph Bunche

  Strong, Equality, Soul

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• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Fitness, Motivation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time-not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day.

  Thomas Dreier

  Life, Happiness, Years

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• Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Learning, Adversity

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• Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Death, Men

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• Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human
  society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life. Give great care to the
  preparation of engaged couples and be close to young married couples, so
  that they will be for their children and the whole community an eloquent
  testimony of God's love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Marriage, Children, Couple

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• If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sympathy, Children, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.391, Regnery Publishing

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• Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strength, Being Strong, Athlete

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.301

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• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Dance, Determination, Artist

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Acting

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• I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

  Sasha Alexander

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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