To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.
This is kind of hard to understand, but sometimes you can try so hard at something. Sometimes you can be so prepared, and still fail.
There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.
Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.
Kevin McCallister: [preparing to meet bandits and loading the rifle] This is it! Don't get scared now!
Cop on SWAT Team: [preparing to break down a door] SWAT goes before dicks.
Roxy Richter: You punched me in the boob! Prepare to die, obviously!
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.
