"Achievement is talent plus preparation"
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"The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation."
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"Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it."
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"We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it."
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"It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war."
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"We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat."
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"Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself."
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"Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension."
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"I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time."
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"Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity."
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"Part of success is preparation on purpose."
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"I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use."
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"Plans are useless, but planning is essential."
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"So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours."
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"The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was."
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"Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity."
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"If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win."
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"Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity."
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"Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it."
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"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
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