#preparation

I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#as far as #change #come #decision #england

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#both #carry #day #die #dying

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#death #difference #dying #enlightenment #fundamental

It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#brown #civil #civil service #core #day

Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#bed #before #black #colour #doing

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#achievement #always #preceded #preparation #spectacular

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through. ↗

— William Shatner

#astronauts #been #go #i #preparation

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. ↗

— Hermann Goering

#commission #europe #german #i #influence

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