"Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation"
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"Food is art, I believe. If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way."
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"If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything."
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"Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter."
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"I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation."
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"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."
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"Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it."
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"Preparation is the biggest key right now."
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"With sex scenes and intense scenes, in general, a lot of it is preparation before the scenes happen, so that you don't have to worry about it on set."
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"Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there."
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"Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons."
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"War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production."
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"Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge."
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"Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence."
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"Hope is man's preparation for the unknown."
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"Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future."
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"Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering."
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"It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start."
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"The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species."
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"In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made."
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