Quotes About Preparation

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

When we give up the smaller, everyday things we are training for times when greater sacrifice is required.

Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear?

Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.

To really help people, you first need to understand them—but first understand yourself, prepare yourself; develop the clarity, the courage, and the sensitivity to exert the right leverage, in the right place, at the right time. Then your actions will have power. History," he added, "holds many examples of individuals and nations who acted without the wisdom to foresee the consequences

No task is too formidable when you divide your goals into small, realistic steps and prepare well.

The secret of success in life: Prepare for opportunity when it comes. —Benjamin Disraeli

Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Plan as we might, they defy our planning.

More climbers die during the descent than on the way up." Karakaredes seems to be considering this. After a minute he says, "Yes, but here on the summit, there must be some ritual . . ." "Hero photos," gasps Paul. "Gotta . . . have . . . hero photos." Our alien nods. "Did . . . anyone . . . bring an imaging device? A camera? I did not.

anyway," I said. "But I'll do my best to play John the Baptist for you." Dur

Even places of power are useless unless you're prepared to bring something to them. And I don't mean just the things we brought—they're to the real sacrament what the lump of bread is to the Eucharist. Then, if you come away the same person you were, you know it wasn't really a place of power.

The Consul gripped the edges of the mat with fingers gone white. He had tied the strap of his duffel bag around his belt, otherwise the bag would have tumbled off to a glacier far below.

This grieved me heartily; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

If there is a remedy, I feel it must lie in how we prepare our young for life.

each emotion prepares the body for a very different kind of response:7

Existen dos tipos de miedos, señala el Dalai Lama: el miedo irreal, que nos impele innecesariamente hacia un estado agitado de cavilaciones baldías, y el tipo útil, que nos hace cautos o nos activa y prepara de cara a una amenaza esperada.

anxiety's damaging effect on mental performance of all kind. Worry, of course, is in one sense a useful response gone awry—an overly zealous mental preparation for an anticipated threat. But such mental rehearsal is disastrous cognitive static when it becomes trapped in a stale routine that captures attention

Muchos grandes encestadores de baloncesto, como Hank Aaron, por ejemplo, visionan una y otra vez vídeos de los pívots del equipo al que están a punto de enfrentarse para descubrir, en el juego de sus adversarios, indicios que pueden resultarle de alguna utilidad.

one hears it a lot on airplanes:Make sure you have own mask on, before helping others with theirs.

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

you never really know how to handle a problem until you actually have it.