Top 1200 Preparation And Opportunity Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day of serving in Washington D.C., from my boyhood, to have the opportunity to have represented my hometown in our nation's capital, and now to have the opportunity to serve the entire nation as vice president is ... it's just deeply humbling.

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

Gary and I have been working together all our adult lives and there aren't many brothers who have that opportunity, or they have that opportunity but can't make it to the finishing line. I love the fact that I get to spend so much time with him and I'm not sure there's any other job, except being in another band together, where we'd get to do that.

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.

The time and preparation before a play is something I really value, and it's something I learned in New York.

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

My thing has always been preparation. When I was a performer on the roster as one of the guys on a weekly, full-time schedule, I was always prepared.

Anybody that got in your way or stopped you or barred your success, you either push through them or work around them. I don't have enough time for excuses or crying about people saying how someone wasn't given a proper opportunity. Nobody gave me an opportunity.

Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

Our country has an opportunity to live up to our title as the leaders of the free world and to live up to our potential as being a beacon of freedom and hope and democracy - but not while that opportunity is not equal for everyone.

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

Preparation for any role is a must, so that when the shot is happening, it's about reacting and living that moment. One must be so prepared that spontaneity comes!

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. The time has arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and that protection.

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult the first time, I guess.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

I always plan what I'm going to wear, although I hope my clothes say that I look really good and I've not thought about it! Ironing is part of the preparation, so I don't mind it.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

I love soup 'cause I don't like to cook. It's so easy to prepare, and it fills you up and gives you all the nutrients you need. It's a well-balanced meal, but you don't have to do a lot of preparation.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

As a female athlete, you're always fighting to be on a level playing field with your male counterparts. But I believe the Olympics is great for young girls; they get to be exposed to so many different sports and to these really strong women. It's an opportunity to showcase what we do, which is something that men get the opportunity to do on a pretty regular basis.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

I'm going from the state House to the opportunity to serve in Congress and serve the people in the Fifth, which is a great honor and a great opportunity... It is something that is exciting to a few people, but, you know, often times it is important for us to own the moment, celebrate it, and then move on.

I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

I always set the bar very high, not in terms of results but most in terms of preparation and focusing on the job there is to do in the car.

As long as you put the effort in with your practice, the muscles in your arm stay relaxed and mental preparation is all it takes.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

Through process and preparation and going through all of the interviews, I've learned a lot about myself and my skills.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

My focus is my preparation, my good condition, and every time, I go forward and forward, and nothing can stop me.

Every human being has a dream. I think what's special about the American Dream is that it implies, given everything that's happened with the history of America, that there is the opportunity to make your dream come true. So I think America signifies opportunity.

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.

You go through mental preparation the night before the game and prepare for moments of trauma in a game when it happens.

I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

Instead of scrambling for security in national victory and domination, in preparation for war and military aggression, we must relearn the values of cooperation and sharing, of nonviolence and support.

We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

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

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

If anonymous [Donald] Trump campaign sources are to be believed, they`re pretty concerned he`s going to blow the big debate Monday night with an utter lack of preparation.

You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.