Quotes About Preparation

Once you put in all the work pre-practice and post-practice and see it in a game and see it in play, that's a great feeling.

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

Like I always say, it's a team effort. A lot of behind the scenes work goes in when we're at home.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time.

Gradually work your way towards the hard stuff. That will help you avoid injury and you'll be most likely to stick with it.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.