I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.
Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.
I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.
I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm completely prepared for it when that day comes.
Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.
The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.
'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.
Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment." (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)
No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
Don't torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
