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Preparation

«If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.»
«I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.»
Author: Eden Phillpotts (Writer) | About: Preparation | Keywords: preparing
«If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.»
«I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.»
Author: Urban Meyer | About: Luck, Preparation, Winning
«Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness»
«Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.»
Author: Don Williams, Jr | About: Life, Preparation
«If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism»
Author: Thomas Sowell (Economist, Writer) | About: Conflict, Preparation | Keywords: barbarism
«Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.»
«Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it»
«Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration»