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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"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."

Philosophy Love Is Preparation
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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
Preparation

"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."

Giving Communication Preparation
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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
Preparation

"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."

Speak Share Preparation
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Calvin Trillin Author, Humorist
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"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."

Wise Preparation Kitchen
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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now."

Want Two Preparation
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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
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"Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat."

Humble Preparation Art Of War
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