Preparation Quotes

1. "After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence."
Author: A.J. Jacobs

2. "Sabine used to maintain that preparation for a dance is comparable to what goes on in the back room of a butcher's shop: the meat for consumption is sliced and dressed and put in nice little paper packages, ready for the kitchen."
Author: A.P.

3. "If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything."
Author: Alicia Machado

4. "War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced."
Author: Alva Myrdal

5. "Preparation doesn't assures victory, it assures confidence."
Author: Amit Kalantri

6. "So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way."
Author: Anthony Mackie

7. "An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation."
Author: Apolo Ohno

8. "The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision."
Author: Bruce Barton

9. "Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life."
Author: Charles Dickens

10. "Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up."
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon

11. "Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how."
Author: Chris Hadfield

12. "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
Author: Confucius

13. "This is in the natural order of things--the time of life we've now entered. The afternoon, as Jung called it. Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life. Are we unprepared simply because preparation is not possible? ... We learn--if we are lucky we learn--as we go.... we are in the center of the stream. Much has already happened, and has formed the shape of our lives as surely as water shapes rock. Much lies ahead of us. We can't see what's coming. We can't know it. All we have is our hope that all will be well, and our knowledge that it won't always be so. We live in the space between this hope and this knowledge....Life keeps coming at us. Fleeing it is pointless, as is fighting. What I have begun to learn is that there is value in simply standing there--this too--whether the sun is shining, or the wind whipping all around. [pp.239-240]"
Author: Dani Shapiro

14. "The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls CANNOT be severed. When a mate is SOULBOUND to another--LIFEMATED, as some have come to regard it--a mystery is engaged. In one aspect mystical, the lifemating process is the most sublime endeavor that a Refarian may assume. Once formed, the bond must be ever cherished and nurtured by the process of lifelong rigor."
Author: Deidre Knight

15. "Luck is where opportunity meets preparation."
Author: Denzel Washington

16. "The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…"
Author: Dione Lucas

17. "None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime."
Author: Gail Godwin

18. "Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness."
Author: Graeme Le Saux

19. "Lobster-both-ways is popular tonight. The preparation is easy enough. Take a two-pound lobster. Kill it with a sharp chef's knife straight between the eyes. Remove the claw and knuckle meat. Steam for five minutes, chop into salad with aioli, celery, and lots of shallots and chives. Chill. Reserve the tail until ordered. Paint with herb-infused oil, season with kosher salt and fresh ground pepper, grill for two or three minutes until it's just cooked through. Serve with spicy organic greens."
Author: Graydon Carter

20. "The (nation) state's concern had been the development of citizens - social subjects whose identity was shaped by the goals of the state - and the preparation of a labour force serving the needs of a national economy and administration. That state was interested in cohesion, integration and homogeneity - however imperfectly realized. The globally framed interests of current versions of the market are neither about citizenship - shared social values, aspirations, dispositions - nor about the preparation of a labour force....."
Author: Gunther Kress

21. "The preparation I had in college was the most valuable."
Author: Hayden Fry

22. "Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life."
Author: Herman Hesse

23. "It was like the imminent arrival of Gargantuan preparations had to be made to widen the gutters of Denver and foreshorten certain laws to fit his suffering bulk and bursting ecstasies."
Author: Jack Kerouac

24. "The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste"
Author: James Fenimore Cooper

25. "I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington."
Author: James Green Somerville

26. "Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us."
Author: Janet Fitch

27. "The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown."
Author: Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin

28. "As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page."
Author: Jhonen Vasquez

29. "You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights."
Author: Joe Frazier

30. "Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself."
Author: John Dewey

31. "So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation."
Author: John Ratzenberger

32. "Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."
Author: Kareem Abdul Jabbar

33. "If you're still waiting for it, it mean you're not yet ready for it…whatever "it" is…so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!"
Author: Mandy Hale

34. "Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations."
Author: Marcus Samuelsson

35. "When I saw "Ulysses" on Georgie's bedside table and Tom Finch's name written on it in a scrawl so like my old man's, I felt that I wanted to read it as a preparation for what's about to happen to us all. I understand where the brawny part of my father and I come from - Bill. I'm not saying bill's not smart, but my old man is a pretty intelligent guy and that kind of intellect came from tome Finch. I want to turn the pages he turned. But honestly I'm actually finding it hard. I think that the whole world has lied and nobody has read the book completely. It's a conspiracy up there with Roswell."
Author: Melina Marchetta

36. "I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it."
Author: Mira Sorvino

37. "Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it."
Author: Paul Johnson

38. "Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results."
Author: Roopleen

39. "My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag."
Author: Sarah Wayne Callies

40. "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Author: Seneca

41. "Riley Bay wasn't human.But if he wasn't human, then what was he? An alien, sent to Earth to learn about humanity in preparation for an invasion? Riley was certainly weird enough to be an alien, but I didn't see why the mother ship would send him to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in the guise of a high schooler."
Author: Serra Elinsen

42. "War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradicating in the crucible of necessity all which is base and ignoble. There in the holy mill of murder the meanest of men may seek and find that part of himself, concealed beneath the corrupt, which shines forth brilliant and virtuous, worthy of honor before the gods. Do not despise war, my young friend, nor delude yourself that mercy and compassion are virtues superior to andreia, to manly valor."
Author: Steven Pressfield

43. "I believe in god. I also believe that you should never ask god to make your dreams come true. You have to work for your dreams. And dream actually, with all your mind body and soul. I don't believe luck is when a super power grants us what we wished for. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. So we need to be prepared all the time. Our dream awaits us. It's already on its way. We just need to be prepared when it gets to us."
Author: Thisuri Wanniarachchi

44. "Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage."
Author: Timberlake Wertenbaker

45. "A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn."
Author: Todd Stocker

46. "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."
Author: Tom Robbins

47. "Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss"
Author: Twyla Tharp

48. "In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body."
Author: Venus Williams

49. "All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil.The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No singularity was lacking in this crisis, still subterranean, but already perceptible. The middle class talked quietly with workingmen about the preparations. They would say, "How is the uprising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said, " How's your wife?"
Author: Victor Hugo

50. "I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny , as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it. This is what makes travel so utterly fruitless."
Author: Yukio Mishima

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