Preparation Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• 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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• More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or unemployment may affect our own circumstances. We do know that the Lord has decreed global calamities for the future and has warned and forewarned us to be prepared. For this reason the Brethren have repeatedly stressed a 'back to basics' program for temporal and spiritual welfare.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Learning, Self

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• The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Stress, Team

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• The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

  Nigel Mansell

  Anger, Athlete, Commitment

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• We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

  Henry Ford

  Knows

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• Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation, vision and revision--whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Dream, Kings, Rights

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• Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

  Tom Lehrer

  Humorous, Profound, Insane

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• What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

  Lois Lowry

  Training, Important, Adults

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement

  Tom Osborne

  Missing You, Player, Games

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• Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Sports, Fitness, Knives

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• An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

  William Manchester

  History, Dresses, Wonder

  William Manchester (2015). “The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932”, p.310, Pan Macmillan

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• Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

  James Monroe

  President, Improvement, Kind

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

  Dan Coats

  Character, Self, Years

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