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• Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Self Harm, Ears, Way

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Plain Tales from the Hills”, p.40, Rudyard Kipling

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• One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Fall, Decision, Plowing

  Masanobu Fukuoka (1987). “The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy”, Japan Publications (USA)

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• As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

  Kevin Hearne

  War, Differences, Battle

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four”, p.80, Del Rey

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• But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of the future condition of our kind we must look, not to the wealth or the genius of the coming generations, but to the quality of the disciplines and attitudes that we are preparing now for their use.

  Wendell Berry

  Attitude, Discipline, Quality

  Wendell Berry (2012). “A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural”, p.127, Counterpoint Press

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• The muscularly developed actor is not seen as a serious actor although he should be seen as a serious actor because he has been preparing for these muscular roles his entire life. If you can dedicate years of your life to hitting the gym and dieting and eating right you can definitely take a movie role seriously.

  James Preston Rogers

  Years, Eating Right, Serious

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• A lot of the things that other people from outside the business would see as crazy or strange are just a natural part of the working process. Preparation is key, and detail and collaboration are the rule, but no matter how many hours you spend preparing, there's always something.

  Russell Crowe

  Crazy, Keys, People

  "THE WATER DIVINER: Russell Crowe Talks Directing, Story Selection, and His Career". collider.com. April 22, 2015.

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• Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous melody. In order to improvise, a player first needs to have memorized and analyzed the harmonic structure of so many pieces.

  Jimmy Heath

  Player, Order, Needs

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• The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

  Matt Chandler

  Mercy Of God, People, Mercy

  Source: www.thegospelcoalition.org

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• I do it when I'm a preparing for a role quite a bit - I sit with music. It helps influence the discovery of something. Then sometimes during filming I like to listen to the same things. It brings me back to a place where I just feel more creative and focused.

  Rami Malek

  Discovery, Creative, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Issues, Ego, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.

  Marianne Williamson

  Sex, Real, Romance

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.

  Champ Bailey

  Real, Way, Habit

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.

  Tom Green

  Writing, Doing You, Bunch

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Law, Giving

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• More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing us adequately to attend the rich banquet of life. Certainly the young people of today have mastered the use of technology and are capable of solving complex scientific and mathematical problems, but who and what do these serve if they cannot think for themselves? If they have no understanding of the meaning and purpose of their own lives? If they do not know who they are as individuals?

  Matthew Kelly

  Education, Technology, Thinking

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• We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

  Edward Young

  Time, Mirrors, Justice

  Edward Young (1813). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.73

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• When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.

  John Eldredge

  Fun, Winter, Boys

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages

  John Piper

  Jesus, Rocks, People

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• If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

  Robert Townsend

  Leadership, Fun, Mistake

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• One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me. I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

  Suzanne Collins

  Letting Go, Boys, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.483, Scholastic Inc.

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• The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

  Leslie Bradshaw

  Art, Data, Stories

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• I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so...

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Night, Ideas, Knowing

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Jobs, Home, Mean

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• When preparing for the fight choreography, the first thing I have to think about is what fits in the script. Whatever goes along with the story line and the character's personality; they have to be matched.

  Yuen Woo-ping

  Character, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether.

  Al Madrigal

  Tofu, Preparing Food, Wells

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