Preparation Quotes · Page 32

The only thing I can control is my preparation and how I play games and how I practice.

— Goran Dragic

“Proper preparation ensures that when an opportunity is presented to you, you are ready to seize it and excel.”

— Tyler Basu

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

— William Mulock

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to…

— Omar Epps

Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor.

— Seth Numrich

I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had…

— Roseline Filion

“Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.”

— Nuno Roque

Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.

— Justin Menkes

Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'm just basically focused on what I…

— Alistair Overeem

Food is art, I believe. If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing…

— Bryan Fuller

Don't be too forward but be agile, what will be will be. Just be prepared, opportunity may come, take it gently, make…

— Olajide Oluwatobiloba

The secret of success is to be prepared to grab the opportunity when it comes. When you find opportunity, capture it by…

— Anil Sinha

Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges…

— Paulo Coelho

It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult…

— Michael Jai White

“If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their…

— Ted Allen

So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that…

— Alexander MacLaren

The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ…

— Josh McDowell

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened…

— William S. Burroughs

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions,…

— Wallace Stegner

This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past…

— John F. Kennedy

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is…

— Joshua Waitzkin

Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very…

— Chris Matthews

There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous…

— Bruno Walter

All those places that I've played at is a preparation for me to come to Beijing.

— Stephon Marbury

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

— Tim Cook

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

— Mira Sorvino

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

— Lou Holtz

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.

— Oprah Winfrey

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the…

— Charles Kettering

“Preparation breeds professionalism, and professionalism enhances leadership competencies.”

— Noel DeJesus

“Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.”

— William Faulkner

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

— Tony Dungy

If something hasn't happened to you yet it doesn't mean that it never will. It might just mean your not ready for…

— Anonymous

You can eat interestingly without having to spend a lot of money, with a little bit of preparation.

— Ainsley Harriott

Nobody has had a bigger influence on me as far as day-to-day preparation than Todd Lickliter. He was a huge, huge, huge…

— Brad Stevens

We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but…

— Alex Ferguson

I’m cocky in prediction, I’m confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

— Conor McGregor

It's the training that's the hardest. It's the preparation. The months and months of preparation that nobody really sees, that's the hardest…

— Katie Taylor

Fixing the brain's weak points in preparation for our increasingly complex future is a social challenge as much as a technical one.

— Bryan Johnson