Quotes About Preparation

I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.

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.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

All of the products I take help me feel like I'm getting the maximum amount out of my workouts and out of my practice work. They're a big part of preparing and recovering each week.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.

In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

We have to work to make sure that our police are using the best training, the best techniques, that they're well prepared to use force only when necessary.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Intuition works best when you remember that "tuition" is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.

When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.

Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These guys really come in having done their work.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about.