In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared. — Charlie Morton Copy Share Image
Home teaching is an excellent preparation for missionary service. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you — Rory Miller Copy Share Image
I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity. — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good. — Reggie Miller Copy Share Image
Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent… — Peter James Copy Share Image
I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood .… — Wilma Scott Heide Copy Share Image
Trump staying disciplined and on message is not what Donald Trump wants. He views himself as a tremendously gifted natural communicator who… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
“You were never born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Don't think that way. You were born with a diamond spoon… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I think a lot of acting is about the removal of self-consciousness. The actor is going to be in front of a… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Good preparation is key for me. Nowadays everyone is an actor slash writer, slash this, slash that, its cool; and you can… — Jaime Zevallos Copy Share Image
No other human relationship can approach the potential for intimacy and oneness than can be found within the context of a marriage… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes,… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation.… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image