#preparation

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

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The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. ↗

— Howard Crosby

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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

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Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything. ↗

— Cory Lidle

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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything. ↗

— William H. Macy

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind. ↗

— James Payn

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