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• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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• Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Book, Heart, Eye

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1903). “Works and Days”

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• The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.

  Bill Walsh

  Practice, Organization, Nfl

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• I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

  Walt Whitman

  Ocean, Sleep, Storm

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.288, NYU Press

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• As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Religion, Firsts

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.13, Random House

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• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  Socrates

  Death, Philosophy, People

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• The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Christian, Preparing For Death

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• There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

  Winston Churchill

  Caring, Planning, Moments

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• This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Kings, Winning

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.85, Penguin

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• It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.

  Katy Evans

  Ruins, Feels

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• When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

  Stefan Zweig

  Peace, War, Talking

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• Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

  Thomas Menino

  Strong, Fate, Destiny

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• Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspiring, Successful, Winning

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• Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, War, Strive

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.161, Broadway Books

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• (About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of a holistic approach. We want to become better decathletes and better competitors. I think for us that means just toeing the line at whatever it is we're doing that day and being confident in preparing as best as we can. Later in the year, late in the season when we have all of the thousands of reps under our belt, we can try to maybe focus on one or two things and leave some stuff off one week. Really, we like to keep everything inside the routine and part of the process.

  Trey Hardee

  Sports, Athlete, Mean

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• As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what it means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes are glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator.

  Kevin Hearne

  War, Reading, Mean

  "Tricked". Book by Kevin Hearne, April 24, 2012.

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• . . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

  Kathy Lette

  Guarantees, Recipes, Planning

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• We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Let It Go, Trying, Figures

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• Where you go to these really good schools, and it's all about preparing for the next step of success. That was never even on my radar. My job is to explore the world, because this is my one life, you know? That's totally how I see it. But I came to Yale just being like, Yeah, now I get to explore this place and meet all these people who are really smart. And I was just excited to be surrounded by people who were as smart as me or were probably smarter. And I just did not expect the level of competition and bitterness and anger, and, the tearing each other down.

  Larkin Grimm

  Jobs, Smart, School

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

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• When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.

  Lewis Gordon

  Color, Water, Swim

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• Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

  William Faulkner

  Long, Life Is, Process

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• Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability

  Timothy Geithner

  War, Thinking, Want

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• My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.

  John Edward

  Psychics, Rosary, Praying

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• People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

  Alan Watts

  People, Finding Happiness, Sometimes

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• And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides.

  Antonin Artaud

  War, Order, Competition

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