Preparing Quotes - page 2

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. (Robert J. Shiller)
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. View quote
Sidney Lumet
I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. View quote
Dario Fo
The thing about happiness is that it doesnt 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. View quote
Lana Turner
I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else. View quote
James Earl Jones
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition. View quote
Itzhak Perlman
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. View quote
Cy Twombly
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. View quote
Eden Phillpotts
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. (Gale Harold)
I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them. View quote
Amanda Beard
Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning. View quote
Brandon Routh
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves. View quote
Charles Stanley
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. View quote
Cindy Sherman
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. View quote
Dikembe Mutombo
Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert. View quote
Dwayne Hickman
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be. View quote
Dwight Schultz
I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it. View quote
Elie Saab
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. View quote
Frank Carlucci
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. (Jack Wild)
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. View quote
Lesley Gore
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. View quote
Lorna Luft
But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience. View quote
Michael Shanks
I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life. View quote
Michael Zaslow