Quotes About Preparation

I work like a dog, really. I go over scripts like a mad man and just want to make sure I have my house built, so that I can just kind of go nuts inside of it.

I always carry a little jar of nuts around with me. I roast them beforehand with tamari and thyme to give them a deliciously rich flavour.

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

The objective is to be competitive from March onwards.

The objective is to do things well in London.

I'm very objective driven, so for me it's very important to know who I'm fighting, when I'm fighting, and roughly the direction I'm working in. It gives me that little extra push to do what I need to do to get the sessions, to work towards something.

My only obligation as a professional is to be prepared and be as good as I can be at my position.

In terms of watching other directors, it's more like I go on set now, and I'm prepared, as an actor, and ready to give them everything, but at the same time, you observe how everybody else does it because there's always something to learn.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.

It's more important to know whether there will be weather, than what the weather will be.

He sat up quickly, pulled the book out from under him, put on a green eyeshade, and waited with his pen poised in the air.

Cái cô Ä'Æ¡n nh?t trong kh?p th? gian là má»™t tâm h?n Ä'ang chu?n b? s?n sàng cho chuy?n Ä'i xa xôi, bí ?n c?a mình.

there was yet the assurance of such power in the preparation of the whole, that we knew her to be merely running over the chords of our appetite with preliminary savors, as a musician acquaints his touch with the keys of an unfamiliar piano before breaking into brilliant and triumphant execution. Within a week she had mastered

Today I shall give myself in sacrifice and work; for tomorrow I will have nothing to give and there will be none to receive.

or a saint who had spent all his years preparing for his grand entry into heaven, only to discover on his deathbed that heaven was not some blue expanse full of angelic string quartets and opalescent clouds, but an eternity granted for reliving one's happiest moments, and that he had none to remember;

Hers was a small and lonely life, a rigorous servitude in preparation for a bigger life, as she tried to see it; yet now, just beneath the thinning fabric of her existence, she sensed an invisible roiling of vast, terrifying, dangerous things—things that would play with you if you pleased them, things that would kill you if you proved a disappointment.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

Be the hunter—not the hunted. Never be caught with your guard down. Use good judgment and act in the best interest of our nation.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

read somewhere that victory goes to the man who is most prepared to win. Well, I'm prepared to win. But I can't speak for these other guys. You know what I mean? Let each man speak for himself.

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky.

A beard well lathered is half shaven.