#prep

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#aim high #alone #behave #best #capable

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing. ↗

— Gretchen Wilson

#come #crowd #doing #dream #else

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#i #i feel #luck #meeting #opportunity

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#athlete #being #body #how #know

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined. ↗

— Martin Yan

#burnt #counts #dish #even #how

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#actually #camps #chechnya #come #extremist

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#am #cannot #considered #convinced #europe

We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control. ↗

— Wu Yi

#control #economic #exchange #exchange rate #good

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#absorb #around #generally #going #heads

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye. ↗

— Viktor Yushchenko

#eye #friends #look #must #page