#prepare

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#contagion #countries #currency #european #eurozone

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#finds #hearer #language #prepared #speech

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#acting #ask #be prepared #being #calm

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#coaches #good #land #prepare #rather

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared. ↗

— Michael Korda

#always #being #luck #make #mean

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#any #anything #be prepared #compromise #liked

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#giants #grim #like #peace #precocious

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#divide #does #prepares #primary #us

That's what I've been always saying, that I was always using the mixed doubles especially to improve my net game and being able to return a guy's serve, 'cause then when you play someone like Serena, you are little bit more prepared for that. ↗

— Daniela Hantuchova

#always #been #being #bit #cause

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #life #prepared #questions #waiting