#preparation

Organize, don't agonize. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#organization #preparation #strategy #strategy

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#optimism #preparation #attitude

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance. ↗

— John Zorn

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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. ↗

— Michael Chang

#blow #court #feet #i #legs

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. ↗

— Bobby Unser

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Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. ↗

— Confucius

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Good luck is a residue of preparation. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#good luck #luck #preparation #residue

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#fact #gestures #had #hours #i

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#conference #diplomatic #direct #governments #hague

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

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