Quotes About Preparation

The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time.

Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.

The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

No matter what time your guests arrive, pretend they're early, so naturally you're not ready.

It takes time to save time.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

I focused solely on the sprints, dedicated my time there, got in the weight room, just really did everything I could to make sure I would be in the best position to run for gold.

I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I'm in a hurry.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.