Prepared Quotes - Page 33

• As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected

  Gavin Newsom

  Hard Work, Men, San Francisco

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• I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

  Earl Campbell

  Wanted

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• In life, there's the beginning and the end. The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between – whether you're prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we're getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.

  John Carlos

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Dust

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• The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

  Maurice Strong

  Growth, Population, Needs

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• No one could have prepared for me BBQ on pizza. I mean, both are great. But together? It was incredible.

  Pau Gasol

  Mean, Bbq, Together

  "'I've Never, Ever Liked Elvis': an Interview with Laker Pau Gasol". Interview with Dan Gurle, bleacherreport.com. May 8, 2008.

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• It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world
  if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.
  But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a
  world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite
  and world bankers is surely preferable to the national
  auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  Determination, Past, Light

  "The Powers That Be: America's Dirtiest Secrets". Book by William Caniano, 2007.

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• When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

  Ben Chandler

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Giving, Atmosphere

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious.

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Discovery, Preparation

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• We can never be prepared for everything.  No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

  Mark Nepo

  Wall, Way, Facts

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.133, Conari Press

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• Let’s get one thing straight: Mexican food takes a certain amount of time to cook. If you don’t have the time, don’t cook it. You can rush a Mexican meal, but you will pay in some way. You can buy so-called Mexican food at too many restaurants that say they cook Mexican food. But the real food, the most savory food, is prepared with time and love and at home. So, give up the illusion that you can throw Mexican food together. Just understand that you are going to have to make and take the time.

  Denise Chavez

  Giving Up, Real, Home

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• Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!

  David Herbert Donald

  Manuscripts, Speakers

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• It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.

  John Searle

  Believe, Numbers, Effort

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• Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Ideas, Important, Shapes

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• For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared
  to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.

  Bill Shankly

  Running, Wall, Fighting

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• Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

  Auberon Waugh

  People, Enemy, Hunts

  Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage

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• In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.

  Auberon Waugh

  Thinking, Self, Feelings

  Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage

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• This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed... The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Cancer, Cutting, Cells

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• Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Hope, Jesus

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• Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways, remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one guessed was even there. That is why the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant, but an expression of a basic fact in human experience that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mean, Passion, Expression

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• Move before you think you are ready. It is as if you are making it a little more difficult for yourself, deliberately creating obstacles in your path When you feel that you must work harder to get to your goal because you are not quite prepared, you are more alert and inventive. This venture has to succeed and so it will.

  Curtis Jackson

  Moving, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

  Maria Montessori

  Adults, Environment, Missions

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• God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

  Frederick Buechner

  Greatness, Men, Impossible

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• Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

  Akon

  Thinking, Artist, Legends

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