Unspectacular Preparation Quotes & Sayings

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth. — Marcus Aurelius

I think you're my apple," she said quietly. "I don't regret tasting you. I can't. You're not perfect by any means - there are sweeter out there, and you have a few rotten spots - but I'd never have found a juicer apple anywhere in the world."-Serah — J.M. Darhower

To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level. — Robert Fulghum

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. — Robert H. Schuller

Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough. — Gary Soto

Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation. — Roger Staubach

I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving. — Alex Borstein

Attempt something creative that you have never tried before. Write a poem, draw a self-portrait, design the plot for a movie, or tackle some other creative activity. Even spending just a few minutes working creatively on something can help you relax and spark new ideas that are relevant to other parts of your life. — Max Ogles

That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you. — Adam Carolla

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results. — Roger Staubach

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. — David Benioff

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. — David Mamet

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals. — Patrick White

Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform. — Ludwig Von Mises

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football. — Roger Staubach

What a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad. The performances of horse or man so treated would seem to be displays of clumsy gestures rather than of grace and beauty. What we need is that the horse should of his own accord exhibit his finest airs and paces at set signals. — Temple Grandin