Good luck is a residue of preparation.
~By Jack Youngblood ~
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 ~
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
~By William Osler ~
If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.
~By Alicia Machado ~
Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.
~By Laurel Clark ~
A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
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 ~
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 ~
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism.
~By Kim Il sung ~
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 ~
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 ~
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
~By Erwin Schrodinger ~
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
~By Howard Crosby ~
I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
~By Patrice Leconte ~
Stretching was a major part of my preparation.
~By Edwin Moses ~
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
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 ~
With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
~By Placido Domingo ~
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
~By Colin Powell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
~By Bobby Unser ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.
~By Emma Stone ~
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
~By Alexander Graham Bell ~
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
~By William Feather ~
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.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
~By Hypatia ~
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 ~
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 ~
Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.
~By Jonathan Frakes ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
~By Gail Godwin ~
I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
~By Haile Gebrselassie ~
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 ~
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
~By Richard Kline ~
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 ~
Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
~By Johnnie Cochran ~
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 ~
I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
~By Ted Allen ~
The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.
~By Hayden Fry ~
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 ~
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 ~
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
~By Confucius ~
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
~By George Washington Carver ~
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.
~By Bill Joy ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
~By Omar Epps ~
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
~By Tony Robbins ~
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 ~
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
~By Harriet Martineau ~
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
~By James Monroe ~
The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
~By Sachin Tendulkar ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
~By Edwin Moses ~
So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
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 ~
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
~By John Dewey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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 ~
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.
~By Leopold Trepper ~
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 ~
It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
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 ~
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
~By Roger Maris ~
Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
~By William H. Macy ~
Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
~By Daniel Webster ~
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
~By John Dewey ~
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 ~
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
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 ~
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 ~
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
~By Bruce Barton ~
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 ~
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 ~
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
~By William Manchester ~
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
~By Pierre Trudeau ~
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