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“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers
“Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.”
Compton MacKenzie Sr.
“Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theater”
Gail Godwin
“When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.”
Joyce Carol Oates
“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens”
William Butler Yeats
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.”
William Osler
“School is not preparation for life, but school is life”
John Dewey
“Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. . . .”
William Barclay
“If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now”
Woodrow T. Wilson
