#preparation

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#anymore #because #decisions #get #good

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#anticipated #awarded #before #clearly #discoveries

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#been #ceos #children #coming #desperately

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#feel #give #give me #i #i always

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#only #perhaps #politics #preparation #profession

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#preparation #successful #talent #want #whatever

I always carry a spoon in my pocket. You know, just in case it rains.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #pocket #preparation #prepared #rain

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory ↗

— Osho

#intelligence

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#judgement #life #preparation #religion #life

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#optimism #preparation #attitude