If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing.
We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. . . . We are all children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to earth with the invitation to prepare for eternal life. Every choice, every experience, every repentance and reformation prepares us for what is to come.
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.
You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.
Everyday some people discover you! What good things have you got for them? Just like preparing a soup, prepare good things and keep them ready for the people who discover you!
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of the future condition of our kind we must look, not to the wealth or the genius of the coming generations, but to the quality of the disciplines and attitudes that we are preparing now for their use.
I do it when I'm a preparing for a role quite a bit - I sit with music. It helps influence the discovery of something. Then sometimes during filming I like to listen to the same things. It brings me back to a place where I just feel more creative and focused.
I would say auditioning was my real training ground. The technical aspects - like hitting marks and pacing yourself and preparing and dealing with the downtime - the first recurring role I had on 24 was probably the way I learned that stuff.
I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.
I'm working all the time. When I'm home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.
I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
Preparing for the ups and downs of life.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.