Preparation quotes
623 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day."
"To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life."
"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."
"Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action."
"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."
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"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing."
"Separation comes from preparation."
"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'"
"Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation"
"There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."
"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."
"Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others."
"Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time."
"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."
"Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success."
"One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat."
"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."
"Expect the unexpected."
"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."
"To love is good, too: love being difficult. 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. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things."
"You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation."
"The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing."
"Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war."
"Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love."
