Quotes on Preparation

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.

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.

Education is preparation to live completely.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. Without the time and effort invested in getting ready to create, you can be hit by a thunderbolt and it'll just leave you stunned.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable.

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a