Quotes About Preparation

Carpe Diem - Seize the Moment. Every moment must be seized. Every little moment sets you up for the big moments. If you don't seize the small ones you won't be ready for the big ones.

To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.

Patience is the secret to good food.

Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really need a toothbrush, as most places you go to have a bar of soap and some shampoo.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

A good education prepares you well for anything.