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Preparation Quotes
"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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"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."
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"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare."
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"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
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"I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis."
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"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."
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"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."
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"With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice."
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"I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything."
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"The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation."
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"One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good."
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"So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather."
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"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."
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"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring."
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"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."
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"We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations."
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"I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them."
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"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
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"Even if what you're preparing for does not happen, your efforts aren't for naught. With preparation comes knowledge of each situation, as well as the confidence to handle every new encounter with more grace and ease than the time before."
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"You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast."
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"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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"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."
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"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."
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"Listen carefully, as this may be something of a shock to you." "A shock? You mean all that was just the precursor?"
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"Without proper readiness, we're subject to a 'flub,' or a costly mistake which might have been easily prevented with some simple homework beforehand. Failing to do so deteriorates credibility and reputation, leaving us vulnerable to an unfavorable impression."
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"Be glad that I haven't take out the pen, the rubber and the pencil once taken... all will die."
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"A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen."
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"While you are waiting for that special opportunity, be sure to prepare yourself well enough to seize it when it comes."
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"Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day."
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"There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am."
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"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."
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"Discipline is denying ourselves in the present so as to prepare better for the future."
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"Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!"
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"Being prepared prevents us from getting tripped up by unexpected glitches and surprises."
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"Only after you have qualified yourself, you should then say that God will prosper your labor."
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"There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day."
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"Who wishes to fight must first count the cost."
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"You need to get all the information that is related to the work that the Lord has called you to do."
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"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."
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"You can prepare for any challenge, if you daily nurture your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being."
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"Care enough to take deliberate steps and get ready through thoughtful discipline, research, organization, and effort. It will impress others and give you the winner's edge to live and give your best."
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"Being prepared and sharing your knowledge earns the confidence of those who are interviewing you, depend on your expertise, or seek you out for solutions, answers, or presentations."
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"Study to show yourself qualified for God's use."
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