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• Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.

  Bernie Mac

  Son, Winning, Way

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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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• Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.

  Tracy Thompson

  Pain, Airplane, Suicidal

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• I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

  Isabel Allende

  Healthy, Energy, Aging

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and the restorer of all things important to building the kingdom of God and preparing for the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  L. Tom Perry

  Jesus, Important, Kingdoms

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• Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church—with prayer and meditation?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Makeup, Clothes

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• God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Hero, Opportunity

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

  Cy Twombly

  Art, Preparation, Length

  "'I work in waves'". Interview With Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Reading, Order

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• When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

  Josh Brolin

  Roles, Accepting, Factors

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• Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Motivational Sports

  John Wooden, Swen Nater (2006). “John Wooden's UCLA Offense”, p.93, Human Kinetics

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• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Mean, Israel

  The Times, August 5, 1980.

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• The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

  Pal Benko

  Kings, Squares, Pieces

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• Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

  Aimee Mullins

  Adversity, Responsibility, Care

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• There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer literate in order to avoid being cynically manipulated by the computers of the future. The real value of learning to program can only be understood if we look at learning to program as an exercise of the intellect, as a kind of modern-day Latin that we learn to sharpen our minds.

  Roger Schank

  Real, Latin, Learning

  Roger C. Schank, Peter G. Childers (1984). “The cognitive computer: on language, learning, and artificial intelligence”, Addison-Wesley

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• The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life. To me, this is where the gospel can be the greatest of help to us. The power of the Holy Ghost is the greatest source of strength and comfort we can have in our lives. The Holy Ghost will not only help us in times of need, but will help us to gain a firm testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ, thereby preparing us for life.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Success, Jesus

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• In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.

  Shalane Flanagan

  Training, Trying, Ordinary

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2013

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• The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Bad Day, Confusion

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Aug 21, 2015

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• Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Honesty, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1873). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.162

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• A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

  Scott D. Cook

  Retirement, Marijuana, Poverty

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• Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

  Alan Cohen

  Dream, Postponing, Live Your Dreams

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• It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

  Alan Moore

  Peace, War, Men

  Alan Moore (1987). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He's preparing us for promotion.

  Joyce Meyer

  Sometimes, Promotion, Tested

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• This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Clouds, Yield

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.110, Barbour Publishing

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