For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
Paracelsus

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
James Payn

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Good luck is a residue of preparation.
Jack Youngblood

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
Ralph Ellison

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.
Mira Sorvino

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.
Sasha Alexander

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
Omar Epps

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

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Zona Gale

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
Kinky Friedman

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.
Suzanne Farrell

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
Edwin Moses

I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.
Ray Nitschke

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

I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
Haile Gebrselassie