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Preparation Quotes
"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
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"It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it."
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"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare."
"When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while."
"Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day."
"Discipline is denying ourselves in the present so as to prepare better for the future."
"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."
"It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent."
"However, if you fail to prepare, you will either go through stress to win your race or you may quit when the battle becomes tougher than you ever imagined."
"If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "am I ready now? When can I begin and have it done without giving up?" This is preparation."
"You need to get all the information that is related to the work that the Lord has called you to do."
"A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen."
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
"The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches."
"Once you know you are on the right path, you must stay focused and be prepared for the devil's attacks."
"So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather."
"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."
"I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring."
"One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good."
"With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice."
"I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything."
"I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote."
"If you are not planning for success, then you are planning for failure."
"Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through."
"Only after you have qualified yourself, you should then say that God will prosper your labor."
"There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day."
"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
"They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not."
"We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations."
"The wilderness is a place of trials and temptations where everyone is prepared and trained to fulfill God's calling."
"No one is born successful, success requires preparation."
"For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation."
"Study to show yourself qualified for God's use."
"The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation."
"Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona."
"I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis."
"We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point."
"I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man."
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