Quotes About Preparation

When I was shooting 'Okja,' that was my first time actually seeing a trailer for actors.

We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

First stop when I'm on set is my trailer. I like to set my stuff down and lock the door. Be in my own space for a few minutes.

I was maybe halfway through my career, and I was shooting a Nike commercial, and the director came to the trailer and said, 'Hey man, you're really gifted at this. I get a lot of athletes that come in, but you were prepared, and you made everything seem very natural. I really think you should look into this.'

Whenever I was done with a scene, I'd go back to my trailer, relax and go over my lines. I'd think, 'I can't wait to get out there.'

I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.

During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are going to end up in the back of that ambulance.

In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.

A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time.

We always train with heavier sparring partners to make it harder so the fight will be easier.

It's important to train even if you're not batting. You just have to do that routine every time.

There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.

Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

Football is like hunting. One second can change it all, but it's not just any second, it's a flash. The prey is there and suddenly then it's not. In an instant it's over - you won't have the chance again. You need to know which one precise second to train for, and to understand that moment.

Basically, I really like to train. That's what keeps me busy during the offseason - just training and getting my body right and getting ready for the next year.

It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.

I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.

The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

If you havent been through anything difficult, the minute you do, it will hit you like a freight train and you wont know what to do because youve never been given the tools to deal with it.

Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.