I reckon I've done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for… — Barry Alvarez Copy Share Image
After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor]. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else. — Stephon Marbury Copy Share Image
Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad,… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure,… — Kurt Browning Copy Share Image
I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people… — Ian Thorpe Copy Share Image
Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I don't really take into account what the media says. People have their own opinions about what goes on, but they don't… — Sophie Pascoe Copy Share Image
For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am… — James Spader Copy Share Image
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest… — Mary Ellen Snodgrass Copy Share Image
I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
