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“When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.”
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
“Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.”
St. John of the Cross
“If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it”
Tom Lehrer
“School is not preparation for life, but school is life”
John Dewey
“Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.”
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
“It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.”
Diane Sawyer
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.”
William Shakespeare
“Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winterthe wise treesstand sleeping in the cold.”
William Carlos Williams
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