Preparing Quotes by Patrick White, Peter Lynch, Champ Bailey, Cory Lidle, Lorene Cary, Fannie Farmer and many others.
If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.
I’m always fighting to make the team anyway. I’m always preparing like I’m one of the bottom guys, trying to make the team.
Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.
I’d been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
If you’re preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.
I went to pick my son up from school and walked him back and was in the house preparing dinner, and he came in the house and gave me this flower of chrysanthemum that was full of ants. And he went back out to play and ran out into the street and got hit by a car. The car happened to be driven by a LAPD detective.
In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women.
Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church—with prayer and meditation?
There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don’t talk about it, we’re not preparing ourselves for a better future.
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
Cooking is one of my favourite things – from going to the market, bringing the stuff home and preparing it, to cleaning the kitchen afterwards. I’ve lost my figure a few times. There have been moments when I’ve overeaten, for comfort. But with discipline and hard work, you can get your figure back.
Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.
When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer to another Eng. organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6%. Women were transferring out of the organization, and those who couldn’t transfer were quitting or preparing to quit.
I’ve always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That’s sort of the nature of the business. Even when you’re doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you’re going to do when that’s finished.
But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God
Everything is happening for a reason, it’s preparing you for bigger things.
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
A mother cooking exclusively for her child might be preparing just rice and buttermilk, but it will be immensely tasty. Fast food, on the other hand, may be very tasty, but it has not been prepared exclusively for you, you see.
In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.
Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteen’s ‘If I Should Fall Behind’ for a wedding and was unable to get through it without tears. My wife handed me ‘Love You Forever.’ I read it. I cried. But that cry somehow cured me of crying while singing the song. Go figure.
I don’t have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.
I used to be jack the lad, I was out a lot, I was mainly waking up with hangovers at tournaments rather than preparing.
The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.
For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.
I remember clearly the afternoon I sat down with Obama. In December 2006, he was preparing for a family trip, and the decision to run weighed heavily on his mind. As a progressive member of Congress from Illinois, I was excited and energized by the prospect of my senator, and my friend, running for president.
God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That’s our job. Raising children and helping the community, that’s preparing for the next generation.
As a working mother of a large family, preparing meals and shopping for groceries is time consuming and hard work.
The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.
If people are coming to work excited. . . if they’re making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they’re having fun. . . if they’re concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.
I’m training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I’m preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.
I put on about 20 pounds to play Washington, and that was really enjoyable. That’s probably the most fun I’ve had preparing for a role. There were only two weeks between ‘Sons of Liberty’ wrapping and ‘Complications’ starting, so I had, basically, two weeks to drop 20 pounds, and that was the opposite of fun.
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.
But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn’t fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.
Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.
I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
A lot of the things that other people from outside the business would see as crazy or strange are just a natural part of the working process. Preparation is key, and detail and collaboration are the rule, but no matter how many hours you spend preparing, there’s always something.
It’s easy to think that college classes are mainly about preparing you for a job. But remember: this may be the one time in your life when you have a chance to think about the whole of your life, not just your job.
You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don’t want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that’s coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.
We’ve begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare.
All the people who were needed to be told about my decision were informed. 2021 World Cup would definitely be my swansong. I am looking forward to preparing for the World Cup.
Landale’s language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.
It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.
Standing at the end of your run with the ball in your hand preparing to bowl the first ball of an Ashes series is an amazing feeling.
I think I do a pretty good job preparing myself. That’s something I take pride in – being prepared and knowing what each individual guy is responsible for. I can point at guys and let them know what they’re doing if they have questions.
I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in ‘The Golden Age’ while preparing to start shooting ‘I’m Not There.’ I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
Changing an opponent shouldn’t be a problem. It sucks to spend a lot of time preparing for someone and then it changes up, but it’s boxing. That happens in boxing and you have to accept that.
When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1) “failure to include a current address,” and (2) “failure to be a large industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing congresspersons.”
Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.
I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.
The best beauty trick I’ve learned is “less is best.” For example, when I’m preparing to go out for the day, something as simple as putting some concealer underneath my eyes with a bit of highlighter automatically gives me a natural and fresh look. If I do that with a little bronzer, then I’m good to go for the day.
Preparing for another opponent isn’t very glamorous. But it’s Hollywood. You want to see the fun parts. The meeting rooms are not super fun.
Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it’s like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.
When I was preparing for one term’s work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.
We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.
Van Gaal is how you see him in the press conferences; he’s like that with us, too. He’s honest and straightforward. He believes in his style of training and way of preparing for games.
I am preparing myself to leave football. I have always thought that once you get past 30, it is time to reflect on when you should go, and that is what I have done.
You’re better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.
Preparing well for a tournament sometimes is not enough to win it as you also need a lot of luck in order to win.
When I go on stage, I’m a different man. I become Chubby Checker, And when I’m not Chubby Checker, I’m preparing to be him.
I always say, ‘Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He’s keeping the sun on me for some reason. He’s keeping me aligned with that generation.’ Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration.
The acting part is easy; it’s the preparing – lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape – that’s the hard part.
I’ve been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it.
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows.
I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?
I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
Normally you don’t have the benefit of preparing someone to pay homage to you and what you’ve done in your life. Usually, you pass away and someone does a tribute to your character and who you were during a specific period of your life.
Don’t touch my junk, you airport security goon – my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I’m a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?
Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.
It’s difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you’ve been preparing and researching for weeks.
When I started ‘Case Histories,’ the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called ‘Embarkation.’ It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?
My father worked in a grocery store. When the grocery chain went into administration, he eventually got a job in the naval dockyard in an office preparing the charts for the boats and the submarines before they headed out.
The 2012 Olympics was such a high, but once it was over, I felt really down in the dumps. You don’t really look beyond the event which you’ve spent four years preparing for, and so there’s a bit of a comedown.
The truth is you and I are in control of only two things – how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.
My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife’s grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States.
If you have a dream, never stop preparing for that.
By the time a meal I’m preparing rolls around, I’m usually so full from tasting that I’m not hungry any more.
Any athlete or any actor who’s preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you’re getting ready to perform or to execute – it is a massive challenge that’s thrown your way that you didn’t expect.
When I am preparing my ‘lookalike’ photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.
I might not be a great cook when I am preparing something for myself, but when it comes to cooking for others, somehow my cooking skills are at their best.
Community colleges are popular among political leaders of both parties. But because of the lack of funding and a lack of direction, they have lost their critical edge in preparing workers for a 21st-century economy.
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection
Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature’s way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
This is beyond understanding.” said the king. “You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?” And Merlin said quietly, “Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and the restorer of all things important to building the kingdom of God and preparing for the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I feel like we have these tough years preparing for this great season of life and I feel like 2019 will be that.
The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.
When I’m preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.
When I’m at home and I’m preparing my own food, it’s all gluten-free, or fish and it’s healthy, but when I go to someone else’s house, I’ll eat what they put in front of me because I don’t want to be an asshole.
Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!
In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
God is grooming us for leadership. He’s watching to see how we demonstrate our faithfulness. He does that through his apprenticeship program, one that prepares us for Heaven. Christ is not simply preparing a place for us; he is preparing us for that place.
Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.
I never cooked before I became vegan. Preparing a meal as opposed to ordering in all the time, you start thinking about where your food comes from and how it gets to your table. You notice that chain.
hope for the best, prepare for the worst
My mother would say, ‘Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.’ I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far.
I’m just going to keep preparing for the best.
Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.
My journey to Sridevi started when I was preparing for my debut film ‘Shiva.’ I used to walk from Nagarjuna’s office in Chennai to a neighbouring street where Sridevi used to live, and I used to just stand and watch Sridevi’s house from outside her gate.
Training-wise, you have to work on your weaknesses, preparing yourself properly for the game, on and off the field.
I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
Derek Bok’s most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.
The more I’ve spent preparing a set, the more nervous I get. That is why I get my energy from the crowd before I step on stage.
I have an idea that the phrase ‘weaker sex’ was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
The thing is you never know what you can do until you try it. Even if you try, you still may fail, but that’s when you have to go and prepare because if you’re not prepared, you’re preparing to fail.
I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
Here in Arkansas, we are preparing a generation of learners to meet the needs of businesses by equipping students with workforce training opportunities statewide.
With Nine Inch Nails, it’s all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent’s waking up on and what he’s been eating lately and what he’s been into. Because he’s preparing the whole meal.
The key to your success, to my success, to everyone’s success is determined by our daily agenda. What you and I do every day is either making us or breaking us, we’re either preparing or repairing. So when somebody says, ‘John, I want to be a success. Where do I start?’ I say, It’s very simple. Start with today.
Twice a year we film the orange juice commercials and at home in our daily life I try to involve the children as much as possible even in preparing meals.
Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an ‘A’ pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that’s not how it works.
It’s so hard in the NFL, man. You spend the course of a long week preparing for one opportunity. And once you get that opportunity and you get in that moment, it’s just an amazing feeling. It’s something you should celebrate about, something you should be excited about.
God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all the resources of the universe in order that the work you do may be a part of His whole great and gracious work.
Rehearsals are great because without them, you feel like you’re being thrown into a lion’s den. But being on set, shooting your scenes that you’ve been preparing for months – that’s a great feeling.
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Beijing is preparing for an open-ended period of confrontation with the U.S. Washington should also be prepared. Leaders must work across partisan divides to understand the threat, speak about it openly, and take action to address it.
Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether.
God is preparing you for greater things. He’s going to take you further than you thought possible, so don’t be surprised when He asks you to think better of yourself and to act accordingly.
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
Front squats have really helped my quad development, especially when I was preparing for the Ironman.
GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.
When I wrote “Lead Me,” I had no idea that God was preparing me to lead my family through a season of great adversity. It was only a month after Pieces of a Real Heart was released that my wife, Sarah, and I found out that our son had a severe, life-threatening heart defect.
I don’t know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.
Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.
Being part of ‘Game of Thrones,’ you’re always expecting your character to die. You’re not mentally preparing yourself for a very long haul.
It’s a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I’m a person that can make some hit singles. I’m not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I’m preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they’ll respect my emcee skills.
It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavours when preparing foods. В That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients
I’m always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I’m making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so…
When preparing for the fight choreography, the first thing I have to think about is what fits in the script. Whatever goes along with the story line and the character’s personality; they have to be matched.
If I’m alone, I tend to cook for myself. I do a pretty good job of preparing healthful foods. My go-to is everything in a bowl like quinoa, avocado. Later in the day, scrambled eggs. I’m not a gourmet chef. I cook in bulk very well.
Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
It took me a while to realize that’s just your body preparing you to do something.
The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God’s people, He was purposefully preparing me.
My horses make very silly faces when I’m preparing their meals.
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.
The only way faith can be relevant is by preparing the mind to receive it.
Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I’ve just found all of my ideas I’ve been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.
That’s what I like about acting. When you’re preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it’s on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.
We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.
If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade a precious gem for a cheap trinket.
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
Pretty much everyone’s career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research – even flat-out doing our bosses’ work for them.
A lot of guys have tons of talent, but it boils down to the mental side of things. Preparing and knowing your offense and studying the defense. Being able to read and react quickly. The mental side is often overlooked.
The Republican leadership is quite hopeful at this time that they will have wide latitude. [Donald] Trump is a big visionary guy, not a detail guy, obviously. They are preparing to charge ahead with a Republican, a conservative agenda that Paul Ryan talked about a lot on the campaign trail.
We see time’s furrows on another’s brow, And death intrench’d, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!
It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don’t do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be.
I’m used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I’m usually at the rink from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.
If I’m preparing for something and I’ve got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can’t assess a scene unless I’m in character, if that makes sense.
Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth.
Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
You’re here now, welcome home.
Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
You’re here now, welcome home.
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor’s muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.
I think every time I step on the court, I’m just preparing myself to be the best player I can be, be the best teammate I can be as well.
People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.
Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.
I’m quite certain the Windows 8 team is preparing to market IE 10 – and by extension, Windows 8 – as the safe, privacy-enhancing choice, capitalizing on Google’s many government woes and consumers’ overall unease with the search giant’s power.
Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.
My mother, my father, my brother, they’ve done a tremendous job of preparing me and helping me get right in having confidence.
It’s silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.
The work I’ve been putting in, I’ve kind of just been preparing myself for every situation. I’ve been doing a lot of off-the-ball shooting, catch-and-shoot shots. And preparing myself to play on the ball as well.
When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
Battling is therapeutic for Hip Hop, but you can’t take it serious. I mean, you got to take it because when you’re preparing your material for your opponent but when it affects your heart or when you let it get too personal… you got to have fun with it.
I did the best that I could in preparing for Georges, knowing what I knew. Some things worked, and some things didn’t.
When I came back on the rink in 2012, I set a goal of wrapping up my career well rather than just winning medals. I’m not preparing for any special skills for Sochi because I don’t feel like they are necessary.
I have to finish ‘Behen Hogi Terim’ and then get right into that zone to seriously start preparing for it. It is a huge responsibility to play Netaji.
I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that’s really why I’m preparing for January, because I’ll finish in June; then I’ll be writing and doing other projects for the rest of the year.
If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
Having today’s technology available to our students is crucial in preparing our future workforce.
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
Music is a huge part of my life when I am on the road, working out, or preparing for a game. It is something I always go back to, and it is something that motivates me. It gets me hype before a game.
Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They’re constantly reminded they are preparing ‘for real life,’ while being isolated from it.
I’ve gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it’s endurance.
Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.
Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola.
My work is my passion so it’s impossible to imagine doing all the things I love if I couldn’t see – riding my bike, reading an autocue or preparing dishes.
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Prior to 1980, people used to dictate to a secretary for preparing written documents and that person would then punch keys on a typewriter. I was inspired to invent a medium for doing this work by engaging just one person.
Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He’s preparing us for promotion.
In these early games you’re focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There’s not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Mexico attacked United States troops in 1846 because they had moved into disputed border territory; President James Polk used this as a convenient casus belli, but he was preparing a war message for Congress even before the attack.
It is a tremendous honor to be a No. 2 seed, and to get to play so close to home in Dayton. It is an incredible feeling, and it will be interesting to start preparing. But right now we need some rest and then we’ll get our guys going for the NCAA Tournament.
My parents didn’t believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God’s timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.
I’m an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.
Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it’s amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won’t even eat.
Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.
Preparing for a short-notice fight is dangerous, it doesn’t even matter who you are preparing for. Short-notice fights suck.
I feel like I’ve been playing Spider-Man my whole life. He’s a character I’ve been pretending to be in my bedroom since I was a kid – so I’ve been preparing for this forever, I think.
I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It’s like preparing for a jump. You can’t rush. You must summon the appropriate energy.
Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.
After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I’ve had no formal acting training.
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.
Alpinism means you go by yourself with your own responsibility, knowing that you could die. But Everest now is more like ski tourism: preparing the piste, helping people go up, setting oxygen bottles near the summit.
Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.
I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No amount of preparing can really ready us, in a meaningful way, for the great void that awaits us all.
I started preparing meals for my family when I was 12 because both of my parents worked, but I didn’t know that it was something I could make a career out of until I had my daughter and realized there were people out there who were interested in learning how to prepare a quick meal.
After a couple of years in a professional setting, you’ll get used to dressing presentably, preparing for meetings, speaking appropriately, showing up on time, writing professional correspondence, etc.
Mosley is bigger than me. He’s fast and his hand speed is still there. He’s faster than most of my opponents. He’s also preparing hard and he’s also good, so we never underestimate our opponent.
If Hillary can’t win the nomination – and it’s clearly very, very hard for her – she’s basically a stalking horse for McCain. She’s preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.
You want be young and have fun, that’s great. But while you’re having fun, someone you don’t see is studying and preparing. You might end up working for that person. No one wants to hear that! But I try to tell young people: You want to be the one signing the front of the check, not the back.
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan’s exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions… and we need to do it under tight control.
Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.
Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. – on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov
We can’t be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.
What I’ve realised is that I’m happiest when I’m at work, as I am always preparing myself for when the opportunity arises.
God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.
I was preparing to get into one of the IITs when I was in school. I was a good student.
A lot of people aren’t saving enough. And incidentally, people are living longer now, and health care is improving. You might end up retired for 30 years – people are not really preparing for that.
What I tell my kids is, ‘I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.’
When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you’re preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We must be alert, stern, righteous and ascetic. For we were bent on doing great, permanent and noble things.
Sometimes you can win, and you are preparing to disrupt yourself. Sometimes you don’t win, but you are preparing yourself to be better.
Sometimes I’m asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer… prayer… prayer.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
Everything I was doing when I didn’t have deals was preparing me for when I did
While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.
Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.
Usually I love preparing. It’s really the time I prefer, because it’s a time of reflection and of possibility of growth – to let it cook inside.
Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!
Religious teaching in the past has dealt mainly with preparing people for the next world. This is of course of the utmost importance, but we should not allow it to blind us to the fact that there is a Power that can make this life perfect also.
Mr. Trump has evolved to the point where he understands that a grass-roots strategy must be supplemented with paid advertising to be able to combat the negative ads that will run against him – and he is prepared or preparing to spend what it takes to make sure his message gets to the voters.
There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.
I had grown up preparing for the Days of Abomination, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood.
Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.
In the two years of preparing material for shows, I realized there are elements that are definitely going to work live, but might not be the most exciting thing to put on a record. And there’s stuff that I really love but it falls flat live.
I’m preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that’s coming up in New York City.
I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.
I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.
Even though Traf-O-Data wasn’t a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft’s first product a couple of years later.
You’re in the gym eight hours a day; you’re not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making acting appearances.
One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.
Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it’s a path we’ve been preparing for carefully.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.
Christ’s public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty – two years.
This is what you should do, let it rest. I’m playing football for LSU. I’m preparing for R-Kansas. I’m preparing for the next game, and the next game after that.
This year is very difficult for me to run after I after I lose my fiancee. I’m not preparing very well. I have sadness in my heart.
Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.
I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.
Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.
I’m a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don’t they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?
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.
I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.
I would say auditioning was my real training ground. The technical aspects – like hitting marks and pacing yourself and preparing and dealing with the downtime – the first recurring role I had on 24 was probably the way I learned that stuff.
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ‘Little House’ series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America’s settler families ate in the late 1800s.
I love the draft process. I love the regular season. I love preparing for the games. I just love football.
In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.
I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food – it really is an art form.
What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.
The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That’s kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.
And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.
Preparing for a stunt is like training for a sporting event.
We didn’t know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.
Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.
And war is wonderful, isn’t it? For it’s war, isn’t it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides.
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
The rise of ISIS is a result of – Obama and Clinton making a decision to pull our troops out without preparing Iraq is a colossal mistake.
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
I do a pretty good job preparing myself. That’s something I take pride in.
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.
There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.
We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route, not looking for alternatives, not thinking that there is ample time to do things later
As a batter you are generally playing a mental game most of the time and having too long to prepare can work against you – you can almost fry yourself out before a Test match or feel slightly fatigued two games in because you have spent too long preparing.
I am a fitness freak, and I do not celebrate any festivity in a grand way during the months of December and January because I am busy preparing for my marathon.
I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present.
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present.
In the poorest countries…it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty…and preparing another generation for…leading their countries into real security.
Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!
To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year – but for a lifetime.
Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.
One thing that’s nice about writing a book about food is – unless it’s from a specific place – you can revisit things easily by preparing the dish. The sensory detail that comes from interacting with that is something that can be recreated pretty easily.
I don’t feel anything right now. I am just preparing, that’s it.
. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn’t guarantee a recipe for success.
Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.
My first semester of college, I’m going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.
We know that there are significant health benefits from consuming more fruits and vegetables, and that’s an opportunity for us to sort of move away from some of the meals that we’ve been preparing in the past.
God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God’s life and character.
There was reason for STILLMAN’S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK’S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED THAT THIS AMBITION WOULD DRAW HIM INTO THE WEB OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE
People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.
So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy… your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
All of the products I take help me feel like I’m getting the maximum amount out of my workouts and out of my practice work. They’re a big part of preparing and recovering each week.
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
It feels like he’s marking me. Like he’s preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.
Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary ‘game over’ neon sign that’s starting to flicker above our children’s heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead… now that’s what you call risk!
Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.
When I’m not preparing for a fight, I like to chill, go to the cinema and socialise with my mates.
The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior’s Second Coming.
We’re all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don’t spend any time, or think they don’t, on preparing themselves for the world out there – I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.
Once I’m at the training ground, I’m focused, preparing for the next game.
People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don’t run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don’t create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.
When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor’s Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon’s top aides – H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell.
Many feel the terms “Sabbath day” and “play day” are synonymous. . . . But I . . . know that remembering to keep the Sabbath day holy is one of the most important commandments we can observe in preparing us to be the recipients of the whisperings of the Spirit.
I really enjoy everything about this profession. From the training I do preparing for my matches, to the time I spend in the dressing room getting ready, right up until I make my entrance to the ring and the final bell rings.
Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.
Looking at the original lyrics [of “A Song For You” ] as I was preparing it, I thought, “Wow! I feel like it was written for me.” That’s what a great song does. You don’t have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.
Tamil for me is my cousin Esha. I even told her that I was preparing to play a Tamilian and asked her if she could teach me the language.
What I tell my kids is, I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen time rules.
Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.
We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.
When you’re doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character – I hope I don’t reveal too much of myself here – but, uh, no, I’m not doing anything.
What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.
You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages
God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.
In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn’t yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
When the Holy Spirit calls your to fast, He is preparing you for what is ahead.
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London’s West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there’s always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn’t be paid very much for preparing food. It’s uniformity and a lack of connection.
My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can’t conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.
Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it’s preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That’s why the scenery is so flat.
I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it – it’s a really creative experience for me.
To point the finger at one guy, at each other or at the coaches, won’t do any good. It’s not supposed to be the coach. It’s our team. The coaches can do a phenomenal job preparing you, but it has to come from within.
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
I didn’t know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can’t remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there’s also this incredible passive state.
We want Florida to be first for jobs, and we must have a skilled workforce to reach that goal. By investing in science, technology, engineering and math education, we are ensuring our students are prepared for the jobs of the future. Our teachers are essential to preparing our students.
The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, I understand the importance access to high quality education plays in preparing our children to learn and compete in a competitive, global workforce.
My “thinking” time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.
A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.
Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you’re preparing it for dinner. Don’t wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.
I can sit down and watch the Discovery channel and see something on nuclear submarines that gets me thinking about torpedoes and darts . Or I can see a documentary about someone preparing for a big challenge and I’ll use the same techniques. You always need to aim to get better.
We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.
When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.
The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It’s an integral part of the system.
When you’re pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn’t it? You’re just asking questions: ‘Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?’ You’re being Sherlock Holmes.
I guess the hardest thing about preparing for an album release was the fact that we had a lot more responsibility in creating a full-length, compared to a single.
Apple is a military-like command-and-control organization where people lower down in the organization manage up. They are constantly preparing their boss who may be preparing their boss and their boss for a presentation to the CEO or to the executive team.
You need always to balance your tasks at the racetrack and at the factory. Still the factory is important where we are developing the car, preparing the cars.
Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.
We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.
In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.
It was a good experience for me to be in the same camp as Minto when he was preparing for Shane Cameron, to see the weaknesses and strengths he brings.
Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it’s better to prepare for war or instability
When preparing for auditions, I have no rituals. I just try to be as prepared as possible.
Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on his spell-bound prey to dart: Chase him away, sweet Hope, with visage bright, And fright him as the morning frightens night!
God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.
The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.
Everyone has their own way of preparing.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
It is not fair to think that when students transit through a K-12 system that is not preparing them for beyond, that somehow we are going to wave a magic wand and things are going to be perfect for them at the higher-ed level.
Memorial Day will be celebrated … by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.
I’ve never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn’t use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
I’m preparing to be a mother one day and I really wanted to get inside the mind of a mom.
So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I’m free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.
We’ve begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare…I know you can say, oh, Obamacare. I mean, they fill up our rallies with people that you wonder how they get there, but they are not the Republican people our representatives are representing.
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life’s end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.
When I’m playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.
Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child’s friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.
When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant.
As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.
I’m getting fat … as I planned. Luckily, my gut is intentional. I’m actually preparing for a big role. Sure, it’s a cinnamon roll.
I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I’ll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for “Mad Max.”
BottleRock has these incredible VIP cabins where a chef is preparing sushi for you in your cabin or lounge decorated by Restoration Hardware.
Ballet really lends itself to that because there’s such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It’s such a process. It’s almost religious, in nature.
It [preparing for a role] is just like studying for a test and making the test easy; it makes it a lot of fun, especially when people enjoy it.
When I perform outside, the major problem that could arise is strong wind.I spend months preparing for the types of wind that occur in different locations.
We should want children to value difference. Preparing them for a more just world doesn’t mean teaching them to aspire to purple. It means helping them learn to celebrate black.
People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.
Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.
Sometimes you don’t have the time to prepare yourself for looking good in front of the mirror with what you’re wearing. And then when you go to work or go out, you don’t like it. I spend a lot of time preparing.
For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.
I didn’t know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can’t remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there’s also this incredible passive state
In baseball, I don’t fraternize with players when it’s time to hit. I’m preparing for the game. It’s the most important time of the day. And I know if I don’t hit, I won’t have a job in the big leagues. That’s why I tend to get very upset when people try to talk to me.
I am reproached for allegedly preparing my children, my eldest son, as a successor. I swear to you I have never discussed this idea, even with my family or with my sons.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: ‘how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.’ And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.
The thing about happiness is that it doesn’t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I’m grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I’ve had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.
Our expertise is preparing foods in tough environments. We have a kitchen where we grill and roast and make smelly stuff happen, and then bring it to the site and warm it in a way that makes it taste just-cooked.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations…
I’m expecting a lot from myself, I have set the bar high and I want to do really well for my teammates. I love working out and preparing so I have spent a lot of time doing that.
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
Americans do not have a good track record when it comes to preparing for disasters, unless they see a clear possibility of personally being in harms way.
Preparing your tactical formation is essential. Each player needs to know where he has to be, and that is why there needs to be mutual understanding: because you need absolute discipline.
In Porto, when we were preparing, the players guessed the team that was going to play.
Sequencing is a really big factor in preparing for a team that you’ve faced several times. For me, at the end of the day, I feel like if I execute, regardless if I were to use same sequencing as I have in the past against these guys, I still feel confident in my ability to have success.
What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, ‘If you’ve never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you’re not really an intellectual.’
I’m saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
The war against radical Salafi-Jihadism has been going on for several decades already and it will span many more and the U.S. must be preparing mentally for it.
Every time I’m preparing a new production, I’m trying to reinvent my style and offer the audience several choices.
Spring training is kind of my offseason. I’m preparing for the season, but the workload that I experience in spring is much lower than any other time of year. And so, I enjoy it.
Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
Preparing for climate change has to be a national priority backed by tens of billions in federal investment. Lives are on the line.
I have worked on my defense skills and played in the midfield as well. Coaches are preparing players to play at any given position.
I’ve learned a lot about the process. I had no idea how the balls got from the officials locker room down on the field and so forth and so on and all of that. That’s not something I have ever thought or concerned myself about [on] game day. I’ve concerned myself with preparing and coaching the team.
I would say from top to bottom, the SEC is strongest. Every now and then, another conference is going to have a great number one team. But week in and week out, having to play a really tough schedule that’s preparing you for the postВseason, there’s no better conference than the SEC.
The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.
I think we’re going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.
I don’t think about it, ‘Wow! I’m the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.’ For me, this is my job. This is what I’ve been preparing to do. And I really want to win badly.
I hate to write and spend months just waiting for the film to get financed. Then when you start preparing the film and you shoot it, you’ve already forgotten why you wanted to make the film in the first place. I like to have some kind of coherent energy that takes you through writing, preparing, shooting.
Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring new wine into them. Our tendency is to start pouring the wine into skins that will only burst.
As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.
Well, any time I’m preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it’s as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.
I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs.
Preparing for action sequences helps me stay fit.
I do it when I’m a preparing for a role quite a bit – I sit with music. It helps influence the discovery of something. Then sometimes during filming I like to listen to the same things. It brings me back to a place where I just feel more creative and focused.
I do have high expectations for Alex Riley. He seems athletic, articulate and intelligent. Only time will tell how far he goes, but Riley has bonafide potential. FCW did a nice job of preparing Alex for WWE. Alex’s future success is largely up to Alex.
We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity
Dancing is never excruciating as preparing for it is. For instance, the song ‘Chamma Chamma’ had heavy outfits and even more heavy jewellery. ‘Kambakht Ishq’ was shot in extreme heat during the day and a rain sequence in the night, so we were literally drenched throughout the night.
I don’t think about my losses. I only think about winning my next fight and preparing for my next fight.
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King’s army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, “Come and get them.
In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level decisions being made by adults.
I always tell actors, “Don’t think of it as unemployment when you don’t have a job. You have to think of it as being in preparation for your next job.” You have to be always preparing for success.
I was preparing myself unknowingly for ‘Bigg Boss’ for a long time now. It is a show about personality, and I love mine a lot. I would love to flaunt it in front of millions of viewers.
Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.
I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
I spent a lot of time preparing for releasing music and then not a lot of time releasing music.
Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
I didn’t even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.
Once you’ve made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don’t know how hard it is. Once you’ve done it, when you’re writing a second one, it’s almost like you’re preparing, and it’s almost holding you back.
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
I went through a phase of deep introspection. I realised that while doing films back to back, I was getting burnt out and not concentrating on quality. I wasn’t preparing for my role and was working like a machine. When I saw the result on the big screen, I felt that the work I’d done was horrible.
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.
More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators.
When I was preparing for ‘1994,’ the song for Deena and Sam was ‘Fast Car’ by Tracy Chapman. I just really love that song so much, and I think the lyrics really hit home and reminded me of their dynamic.
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
Clay is so challenging as a surface because you want to be playing aggressively but the margins are so small and it’s easy to get the balance wrong and start making errors. Getting your movement right and preparing correctly to hit your shots is key.
Our schools play an important role in preparing our students to enter the workforce.
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.
At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don’t drive. I don’t have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.
Slowly and steadily I’m preparing myself for Bollywood and I can’t wait till I get an opportunity.
When I’m preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.
The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness—
preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.
preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.
Astronauts are very professional and when they’re preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.
Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in.
Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.
