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“... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.”

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“There is an undeniable economic and cultural disconnect between many of those who volunteer to serve and those who choose to remain civilians. But what is more concerning to me is the disconnect between our political leadership that applauds our soldiers and veterans, but then won't provide funding to properly armored vehicles or health care when our servicemen and women come home. You can't send men and women to war without being prepared to take care of them abroad and give them the services they need when they return home.”

“Do not compromise on national security for purely budgetary reasons. The world is dangerous, and we must always be prepared for anything that might threaten our national interests and security.”

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Author:Sanford Bishop

“The important thing is to be able to understand anyone who has something useful to say. - There is a general moral here. Be very careful and very clear about what you say. But do not be dogmatic about your own language. Be prepared to express any careful thought in the language your audience will understand. And be prepared to learn from someone who talks a language with which you are not familiar.”

Important Able Language Moral Audience Clear Important Things Prepared Careful Familiar Be Prepared Dogmatic

Book:An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition

Source: An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition

“Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.”

Wells I Can Beautiful Sound Sacrifice Drama Scene Demand Opposites Notes Prepared Meaningful Tone Opera

Book:Bubbles: an encore

Source: Bubbles: an encore

“Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.”

World Problem Clear Adults Prepared

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.”

Ifs Wells Ends Matter Fall Prepared Holes Better Off Falling Down

Author:Fiona Apple

“That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“I actually don't have any fear of people reading Wild and going out unprepared. Because one of the best things that ever happened to me was that I went out unprepared. And when you really think about it, all I did wrong was that I took too much stuff, which is the most common backpacker mistake. The part that I wasn't prepared for is the part you can't prepare for.”

People Thinking Reading Stuff Common Mistake Too Much Happened Prepared Best Things Going Out Unprepared Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Opinion Sacrifice Huge Cost Prepared Be Prepared Great Art Think Of You Personal Sacrifice

Author:Romola Garai

“You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.”

Ifs Mind Body Fall Causes Effort Sacrifice Aim Prepared Confusion Be Prepared Mind And Body Inertia Fall Back Ruts

Book:Triumph and Tragedy

Source: Triumph and Tragedy

“...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.”

Knows Trying Wells Seems Games Felt Causes Elements Performances Prepared Musical Lifts Glorious Decent Festivals Theatrical Climax Musical Performance

Author:Hermann Hesse

“I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.”

World Advice Adults Prepared Experts Leisure Philip

Author:Neil Kinnock

“If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.”

Ifs Men Want Rooms Risk Goes On Prepared Planes Bargaining

Book:Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

Source: Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

“I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.”

Thinking World Cost Management Strategy Structure Prepared Very Good Investors Passive Propose Entrepreneurial

Author:Bill Ackman

“I'm prepared for 12 rounds. I'll be very happy with anything else, but I'm prepared for 12 or 15 rounds.”

Prepared Rounds Very Happy

Author:Jan Zaveck

“I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.”

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Author:Vin Scully

“We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.”

Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

“Good preparation is key for me. Nowadays everyone is an actor slash writer, slash this, slash that, its cool; and you can only go so far on pure talent so you also need to know your craft well. I directed tons of shorts in college and acted in a slew of non paying acting work. You just have to be prepared. Period.”

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Author:Jaime Zevallos

“You can never be too prepared. I don't believe creativity needs to come from chaos, I find it's easier to be creative when I'm really "ready".”

Needs Believe Creativity Creative Ready Easier Prepared Chaos Don't Believe Be Creative

Author:Leanne Pooley

“I could've had moments when I could've said, "You know what? Let me make another film; this is taking a long time to get distributed." It can be difficult to stay passionate. You have to be that passionate and be prepared for it to get what it deserves. Make sure you have a really good team going in at the beginning and don't have people in your team that aren't there 100%.”

People Knows Long Said Moments Film Difficult Team Long Time Deserve Let Me Prepared Passionate Be Prepared Good Team

Author:Storm Saulter

“I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.”

Firsts Chance Morning Policy Argument Prepared Shooting Misunderstanding Consuming Trailers Time Consuming

Author:Tony Scott

“Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.”

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Author:Amanda Ripley

“I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.”

“The reality is that most gay couples don't want to adopt a child. Those who do, though, are often prepared to devote themselves entirely to their adoptive child.”

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Author:Jens Spahn

“I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.”

Wells Taken Negative Prepared Response Precaution

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“I work out hard, and I do things that I feel make me better throughout the race and after the race. And I feel better mentally because of working out, being prepared and being in great shape. Driving the car, I think with reflexes and things throw at your so quickly, you have to make adjustments - the feeling of your car, the heat. Some tracks can be tough on your neck and arms, and other tracks, not so much. I think there's a lot there that definitely takes some athletic ability, and I think that helps being athletic and being prepared like that. It helps me for sure.”

Thinking Feels Hard Helping Feelings Ability Race Car Arms Shapes Tough Prepared Track Work Out Driving Heat Necks Help Me Feel Better Athletic Adjustment Reflexes Athletic Ability

Author:Kasey Kahne

“In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.”

Philosophy Rooms Prepared

Author:Omar Sharif

“It’s not really pressure, unless you’re not prepared.”

Pressure Prepared

Author:Colin Kaepernick

“The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.”

Eye Approach Prepared Storm Preparation Eye Of The Storm Storms Coming

Author:Russel Honore

“This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this 'kangaroo court'.”

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Author:Ahmad Sa'adat

“And I like people. I like to know what you're really up to. I'm a bit of a nosey busy body. Why do they do the things they do? Why are they prepared to do the things they do to get what they want? When? Where? Who?”

People Knows Want Body Bits Prepared Busy Nosey

Author:Tom Hardy

“Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.”

Thinking Prepared Preparation Covered Angle

Book:How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

Source: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.”

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Author:Ken Robinson

“When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.”

Ifs Mind States Quality Activity Prepared State Of Mind

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!”

Writing Ideas Use Brain Leader Stupid Speech Ethics Empty Prepared Honour Bottles Write Your Own Nehru Good Ethics

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.”

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Author:Lawrence Schiller

“Europe has discarded its children. A bit triumphantly. I remember that when I was studying in one country the clinics that did abortions then prepared everything to send it to cosmetic factories. Makeup made with the blood of innocents. And this was something to brag about, because it was progressive.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality. We will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.”

Ifs Peace Risk Security Garden Crosses Prepared Harm Conclusion Borders Related Threatened Turkeys Border Security

Author:Ahmet Davutoglu

“In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!”

Stones Towns Prepared Conservative Something New Be Prepared

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.”

Thinking Men World Firsts Heart May Two War Dream Force Prepared Stupidity Surrender Quarrels Hints Family Quarrel

Author:Ronald Reagan

“But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban.”

“I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.”

People Thinking Feelings Cases Car Baseball Prepared Incredibles Be Prepared

Author:Mike Trout

“We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.”

Pay Half Cost Prepared Be Prepared

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.”

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Author:Wilhelm II

“If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.”

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Author:Anwar Ibrahim

“There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.”

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Author:Ricardo Semler

“My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.”

Two My Own Views Prepared Acknowledge Calendars Eclipse Chronicles

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.”

Dies Prepared

Author:James M. Barrie

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