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• I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, School, Perfect

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• The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord. The book of Acts records the propagation of the gospel (the good news) concerning Jesus Christ. The Epistles (letters) explain the gospel and its implications for our lives. The book of Revelation anticipates and describes the second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His eternal kingdom. From beginning to end, the Bible glorifies Jesus Christ and centers on Him. Its Christ-centeredness is one of its wonderful features.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Book, Centeredness

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• Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance.

  Jack Hyles

  Greatness, Performances

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• Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparation, where the trip was presented as a learning experience and a process of self-discovery. They all took place in safe, supportive environments. They generally did not fit the stereotypical model of teenagers dropping acid at a rock concert, looking for awesome visuals and good vibes.

  Rick Doblin

  Powerful, Teenager, Dropping Acid

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• Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Children, Motherhood, Expectations

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• Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Book, Opportunity

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• On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Practice, Sight, Chess

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• Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

  Paul Theroux

  Recovery, Winter, Seasons

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• By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mean, Anxiety, Planning

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.18, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Taken, Anxiety, Life Is

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.164, The Floating Press

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• I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of challenges. My training in the Royal Marines taught me to be professional at all times, even in dangerous and frightening circumstances. But fear can be dispelled by knowledge and preparation. Life hangs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is complacency. If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.

  Pete Goss

  Cancer, Adventure, Marine

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• Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]
  Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.

  Steve McConnell

  Beer, Hands, Feet

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.16, Pearson Education

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• How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.

  Dale Carnegie

  Attention, Calling, Ability

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

  Amerigo Vespucci

  Travel, World, Wonder

  Amerigo Vespucci (1992). “Letters of the Four Voyages to the New World”

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• If you do your "homework" well you can be sure you'll feel more relaxed. Make sure you have a walk or rest before the game because the most important thing is to be focused during the game itself! If you get tired by preparation you won't have enough energy left for the whole game, and we all know that a single blunder can ruin all the work done beforehand!

  Judit Polgar

  Mistake, Tired, Games

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• Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Pain, Winning, Men

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• Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running for endurance, working on your technique. The second monster is your mental preparation-all our jabbering about humility, battling for your life, taking complete responsibility for the outcome. The last monster is your X Factor, your soul, your courage. Taken altogether, I call this three-headed monster the Process of Winning.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Running, Taken, Responsibility

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• For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet we had no good idea of our goal. Without knowing what a real race was like, I couldn't judge whether it was worth all the preparation, but having put in so much time already, how could we back out? Quite a few Freshman did manage to back out. After Christmas several, when freed from faily practice, decided that they liked not feeling tired all the time. Most of them vanished without a word.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Real, Tired, Vacation

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• A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Different, World

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• Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.

  John Turner

  Blue, Track, Mind

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• Everything you need to know about a customer has been written by them or about them. And it lives on the Internet. All you have to do is uncover it. And use it.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Needs, Use, Internet

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• Sales is survival, the best-prepared are most likely to survive.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Survival, Prepared

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• If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

  John Henry Patterson

  Finding Yourself, Next, Wonder

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• Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Half, Salespeople, Company

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• I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mean, Be Prepared, Prepared

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