Good luck is a residue of preparation.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.