I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.