#preparation

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#guts #just #many #need #preparation

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#generates #luck #meeting #offspring #opportunity

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#contacts #happy #happy childhood #human #poor

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ↗

— Colin Powell

#failure #hard #hard work #learning #preparation

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#dice #down #i #mistake #never

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#ability #away #carving #certain #doing

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. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#deputy #earth #god #illusions #important

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #feels #i #i am #ideally

The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need. ↗

— Kate Capshaw

#becomes #best #emotion #get #go

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

#education #even #future #hence #illiteracy