Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.
It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.
Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.
Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.
The good life is the best preparation for bad times.
No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.
Americans spend about 6 billion hours a year collecting the data and filling out the forms. We spend $10 billion to H&R Block and other preparers. And on top of that, $2 billion in tax preparation software, which still takes hours of work. It's outrageous the burden we put on people, and guess what, you go to Europe, you go to Japan, it's 15 minutes and costs nothing.
You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation.
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.
The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.
Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.
There is a time and a place for creativity.
War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.
I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.