#preparation

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

#cure #groups #hard #hard work #members

I want to volunteer for global flood relief without abandoning my mountaintop, so I’m making a really long straw. Preparation is everything. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #preparation #funny

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#four #hours #into #months #preparation

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#anymore #because #decisions #get #good

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through. ↗

— William Shatner

#astronauts #been #go #i #preparation

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment. ↗

— Jimmy Smits

#any #boxing #chess #chess game #different

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#anticipated #awarded #before #clearly #discoveries

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#preparation #successful #talent #want #whatever

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#fortune #good-fortune #kindness #luck #old-age

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory ↗

— Osho

#intelligence