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Quotes About Preparation

People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.
~ Laird Hamilton
Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.
~ Marcus Aurelius
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: "This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
~ Nikolai Gogol
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
~ Merlin Olsen
I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.
~ Elizabeth Olsen
It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
~ Sargent Shriver
Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
~ Satchel Paige
This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself—a masterpiece of God.
~ Carl Schmitt
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.
~ Margaret Sanger
Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.
~ Brian Tracy
Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.
~ Steve Jobs
If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die
~ Tariq Ramadan
You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.
~ Taylor Momsen
It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...
~ Lewis Mumford
In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.
~ Alan Kulwicki
We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.
~ Ronald Rolheiser
Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.
~ Stephen Mitchell
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
~ Barry Bonds
Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.
~ Ze Frank
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
~ Frances Cornford
Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.
~ Regina Brett