I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
~By Louis Finkelstein ~
They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.
~By Alicia Machado ~
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.
~By Kurt Browning ~
The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
~By Nigel Mansell ~
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
~By George Washington ~
If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.
~By Tobey Maguire ~
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
~By Bruce Barton ~
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
~By Richard Kline ~
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.
~By Ashley Scott ~
Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Stretching was a major part of my preparation.
~By Edwin Moses ~
Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.
~By Melissa Bean ~
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
~By William Glasser ~
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
~By Joe Slovo ~
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
~By Gail Godwin ~
I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.
~By Cory Lidle ~
I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
~By Johnnie Cochran ~
I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.
~By Jonathan Brown ~
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.
~By Leopold Trepper ~
Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
~By James Monroe ~
The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.
~By Hayden Fry ~
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.
~By Terence Fisher ~
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
~By Barack Obama ~
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
~By William Manchester ~
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
~By George MacDonald ~
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
~By Haile Gebrselassie ~
Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
~By Roger Maris ~
The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
~By Confucius ~
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.
~By James Monroe ~
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
~By William Feather ~
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
~By Gail Godwin ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
~By Zona Gale ~
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
~By James Payn ~
As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
~By Hakeem Olajuwon ~
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
~By John Dewey ~
In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
~By Robert M. La Follette ~
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.
~By Bill Joy ~
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
~By James Green Somerville ~
I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.
~By Sasha Alexander ~
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
~By Paracelsus ~
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
~By Colin Powell ~
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.
~By Howard Carter ~
And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.
~By Jesse James Garrett ~
In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
~By Henri Matisse ~
I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
~By Herman Hesse ~
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
~By William Osler ~
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
~By Kim Il Sung ~
I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.
~By Ray Nitschke ~
We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.
~By John O'Neill ~
Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.
~By Timothy Thomas Fortune ~
I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
~By Patrice Leconte ~
In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.
~By Major Owens ~
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
~By George Washington Carver ~
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
~By Cat Stevens ~
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.
~By Philippe Perrin ~
When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.
~By Tom Osborne ~
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
~By Calvin Trillin ~
Good luck is a residue of preparation.
~By Jack Youngblood ~
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.
~By Hermann Goering ~
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
~By Yukio Mishima ~
I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
~By Edwin Moses ~
The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.
~By Russel Honore ~
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
~By Alexander Graham Bell ~
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