Quotes about Preparation
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
— Andy Stanley
Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
— John Updike
The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.
— Rick Warren
If I've already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.
— Tim Tebow
It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.
— Mark Twain
The Doors Open at 7, The trouble begins at 8.
— Mark Twain
When its steamboat time you steamboat.
— Mark Twain
It takes three weeks to prepare a good ad-lib speech.
— Mark Twain
The road to medical school started with a job mowing lawns I was far from sure I could handle.
— Mark Vonnegut
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.
— St. Jerome
Think with the end in mind. Before you go on a trip, you determine your destination and plan out the best route. Before you plant a garden, you plan it out in your mind, possibly on paper. You create speeches on paper before you give them, you envision the landscaping in your yard before you landscape it. You design the clothes you make before you thread the needle.
— Stephen Covey