If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.
Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.
Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two.
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.
It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty.
We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes.
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.
My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium.