#preparation

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#anything #cut #life #preparation #requires

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#educational #every #follows #fresh #little

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#come #enter #fatal #grave #into

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#between #cameraman #close #costume #course

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#coverage #day #doing #how #i

I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go. ↗

— Ray Nitschke

#every #game #games #get #go

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing. ↗

— Stuart Pearce

#bottom line #chance #education #failing #give

It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call. ↗

— Jyoti Arora

#opportunity #preparation #dreams

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage and perform in a play for which she is not appropriately dressed, and for which she has not adequately rehearsed. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#domestic-life #loved-ones #numb-depression #preparation-to-face-the-day #putting-on-an-act

A plan is the transport medium which conveys a person from the station of dreams to the destination of success. Goals are the transport fees. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achievements #achievers #convey #destination #destiny