"The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope."
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"Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time."
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"If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional."
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"Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius."
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"I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail."
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"If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation"
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"It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance."
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"The preparation for the ritual is the ritual."
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"Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state."
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"Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."
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"Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business."
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"Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history."
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"If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it."
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"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."
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"Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do."
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"The only preparation or participation required to unleash the power of intention is a connection to the conscious intelligence field, which can be attained in many ways, one of the best being meditation."
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"Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life."
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"India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love."
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"Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two."
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"No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide."
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