Quotes with preparation

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Macdonald The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Sir William Osler The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Bruce Barton The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Anthony Robbins The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • George Bernard Shaw To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Bob Barr When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Jane Austen Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Roger Maris You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
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  • Roger Maris You win not by chance, but by preparation.
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  • Bryan Fuller If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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