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“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.”

People Way Philosophy Seems Death Realizing Dying Ordinary Philosopher Preparing Right Way Ordinary People Accord Deep Life

Author:Socrates

“I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.”

Quiet Enlightenment Busy Preparing

Book:Black Ice

Source: Black Ice

“I read the first book about five times while I was preparing for the role. I really wanted to completely embody Lissa and, naturally the book gave me much deeper psychological and emotional insight into Lissa than the script.”

Firsts Book Wanted Roles Five Emotional Scripts Deeper Insight Psychological Preparing

Author:Lucy Fry

“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.”

Remember Drawing Vampire Planes Odd Preparing Auditions Gorgeous

Author:Lucy Fry

“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.”

Men Stills War Names Peace Irony Satisfying Ironic Bloody Preparing

Book:Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.”

Country Fear Cities Enemy Greater Safe Illusion Harmony Misfortunes Factories Preparing Tao Truck Tractors

Author:Laozi

“Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for the tomorrow now, or for the afterlife - afraid tomorrow you will not be able to face the reality, so be prepared. Tension means the past that you have not lived really but only somehow bypassed; it hangs, it is a hangover, it surrounds you.”

Mean Reality Able Past Faces Effort Doubt Tomorrow Protect Safe Constant Prepared Secure Tension Surround Afterlife Be Prepared Preparing Relaxation Hangover

Author:Rajneesh

“A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.”

Whole Poverty Generations Prosperity Retirement Retiring Marijuana Preparing

Author:Scott D. Cook

“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.”

Ifs Wells May Said Philosophy Written Cooking Prepared Details Dinner Kitchen Spokes Preparing Observing Leonardo

Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz

“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.”

Ifs Energy Practice Faster Appropriate Ballet Preparing Correctness

Author:Edward Villella

“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.”

Thinking Life Able Energy Knowing Inspire Scene Very Good Available Saving Endurance Reserves Preparing Consuming Scheduling

Author:Tom Cruise

“Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.”

Years Hours Perfect Reaching Print Anticipation Preparing Sheets Liquid Brushing

Book:Irving Penn: Small Trades

Source: Irving Penn: Small Trades

“I don't feel anything right now. I am just preparing, that's it.”

Feels Right Now Preparing

Author:Irina Slutskaya

“It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.”

Mean Littles Pleasure Cooking Preparing Little Time Palate

Book:The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery

“The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.”

Lines Practice Organization Absolutes Bottom Nfl Coaching Preparing Bottom Line

Author:Bill Walsh

“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.”

Moving Strong Voice Lessons Training Concerts Preparing Choreographers

Author:Miley Cyrus

“There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.”

Real Home Preparing Just Do It

Author:Louis C. K.

“Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is based on the premise that the relationship between teachers and students, the relationships of students with one another, and the relationships of students to what they are learning are equally important in preparing students for the future.”

Believe Has Beens Important Teacher Students Communication Focused Helpful Preparing Premises Nonviolent Communication Public Education Enriching Teacher And Student Student Life

Book:Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships

Source: Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships

“This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison”

Black Lord Break Blessing Mercy Clouds Prophet Rough Yield Clothings Ministry Preparing Baptists Deluge John The Baptist

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“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.”

Years Hands Sound Honesty Seasons Ancient Philosopher Christmas Preparing Hospitality Hearty Merriment Bluffs Old Year Feasting Revelry

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens

“. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.”

Brilliant Planning Guarantees Preparing Recipes Recipe For Success Menus

Author:Kathy Lette

“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”

Ifs Thinking Want War Deals Judgment Areas Crisis Contrary Stability Wiser Preparing Instability

Author:Timothy Geithner

“One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.”

Way Long Three Broken Amount Eating Planning One Way Meals Usual Preparing Cleaning Astonishing Purchasing Long Day Cleaning Up

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“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?”

Ifs Happens Hours Church Prayer Meditation Minutes Special Amount Clothes Thirty Etc Makeup Preparing

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection”

Delight Preparing Insurrection Festivities

Book:The revolution of everyday life

Source: The revolution of everyday life

“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.”

People Leadership Fit Crisis Chosen Preparing

Book:Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

“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.”

People Ifs Hard Century Hard Work Essentials Educational Entrepreneurship Preparing 21st Century Educational System

Author:Eric Ries

“We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state”

States Steps Ready Citizens Refuge Preparing Assistance

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavours when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients”

Mean Important Creating Various Experiments Ingredients Preparing Being Afraid Flavour Preparing Food

Author:Rocco DiSpirito

“Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesnt such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'?”

World Littles Waiting President Interest Chance Enemy Battle Determination Defeat Soldier Resolution Preparing Signals Diminish Crumbling

Author:Fred Thompson

“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.”

Thinking Men Way Science Decision Activity Consequence Machines Insight Operations Assumption Logical Devoted Preparing Hypothesis Transforming Calculating

Author:J. C. R. Licklider

“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.”

Real Sometimes Kids School Sleep Real Life Isolated Preparing Going To Sleep Homework

Book:Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling

Source: Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling

“I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.”

House One Day Built Preparing

Author:Elie Saab

“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.”

World Wells Ideas Whole Whole World Territory Camps Preparing Extremist Chechnya

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He's preparing us for promotion.”

Sometimes Preparing Tested Promotion

Author:Joyce Meyer

“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.”

Two Moments God Might Happens Truth Happened Truth Is Reactions Preparation Two Things Belonging Controlled Preparing Responding

Book:Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self

Source: Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self

“When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.”

War Speak Force Peace Process Talking Organization Preparing Mobilization Preparing For War

Author:Stefan Zweig

“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.”

Book Students College Citizenship Preparing Pointing Underachieving

Author:George Leef

“I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.”

Life My Family Preparing

Author:Michael Zaslow

“Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.”

Dream Your Dreams Preparing Live Your Dreams Postponing

Author:Alan Cohen

“I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.”

Want Years Mind Wonder Five Limitation Five Years Awe Preparing Five Year Olds Sense Of Wonder

Author:Shinichi Suzuki

“Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.”

Men Way Mind Heart Book Moments Eye Lost Growth Unexpected Preparing Bent Heart And Mind Unforeseen Unexpected Moments

Book:Works and Days

Source: Works and Days

“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.”

Giving Should Order Waiting Chance Morning Goodness Bird Seasons Cooking Dinner Chickens Salt Preparing Refrigerators Peppers Fried Chicken Give It A Chance Salt And Pepper

Author:Paula Deen

“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.”

Needs Play Feelings Home Guy Interesting Honor Right Now Incredibles Seeds Preparing Tournaments Ncaa

Author:Thad Matta

“How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .”

“Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.”

Art Hard Winning Easy Loses Losing Martial Arts Preparing

Author:Oli Thompson

“AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.”

World Soul Process Bitter Bitterness Preparing Affliction

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.”

People Sometimes Failing Preparing Finding Happiness

Author:Alan Watts

“There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.”

People Years Ends Worst Summer Sight Assumption Preparing Old People Scenarios Hoping For The Best Prepare For The Worst

Author:Gray Davis

“The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life. To me, this is where the gospel can be the greatest of help to us. The power of the Holy Ghost is the greatest source of strength and comfort we can have in our lives. The Holy Ghost will not only help us in times of need, but will help us to gain a firm testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ, thereby preparing us for life.”

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