Quotes About Preparation

The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

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

If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.

I think it's not up to Congress to dictate what the right amount of diversity is, but I think it's Congress' place to ask the question, to any industry, in talking about what's going on out there. Is there a lack of preparation of the community to be ready to be involved in that industry?

All I can do is control my preparation process from both a physical and mental stand point.

The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.

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 part.

The preparation is what allows the success to happen naturally.

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.