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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
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 ~
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
~By Denzel Washington ~
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 ~
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 five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
~By Bruce Barton ~
My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.
~By Ashley Scott ~
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 ~
Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
~By William H. Macy ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
~By George Washington Carver ~
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 ~
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 ~
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
~By Daniel Webster ~
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 ~
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
~By Gail Godwin ~
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
~By Gail Godwin ~
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
~By Haile Gebrselassie ~
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 ~
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 ~
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
Stretching was a major part of my preparation.
~By Edwin Moses ~
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 ~
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 feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
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 ~
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
~By William Feather ~
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 ~
The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.
~By Hayden Fry ~
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 ~
I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
~By Patrice Leconte ~
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
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 winning effort begins with preparation.
~By Joe Gibbs ~
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 most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism.
~By Kim Il sung ~
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 ~
A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
~By Darrell Royal ~
Good luck is a residue of preparation.
~By Jack Youngblood ~
Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
~By Clare Short ~
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 ~
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
~By William Osler ~
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
~By James Monroe ~
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
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 ~
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
~By Placido Domingo ~
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
~By John Dewey ~
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
~By Roger Maris ~
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 ~
If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.
~By Alicia Machado ~
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 ~
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 ~
I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
~By Edwin Moses ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
~By William Manchester ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
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 ~
Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
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 ~
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 ~
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
~By Alexander Graham Bell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
~By Zona Gale ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
~By John Dewey ~
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 ~
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