Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.
The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now. '
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.
The good life is the best preparation for bad times.
We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.
If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.
Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.
Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don't really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use, and you don't know exactly where it will apply. So you have to be prepared, but not locked into that preparation.