"If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job."

Landry, Tom on preparation   

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

Lincoln, Abraham on preparation
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"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."

Marden, Orison Swett on preparation   

"You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation."

Maris, Roger on preparation   

"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds."

Pasteur, Louis on preparation   

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."

Paterno, Joe on preparation
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"Trust in your preparation."

Sheppard, Davie on preparation   

"The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives."

Walters, Lily on preparation   

"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand."

Sun Tzu on preparation
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"Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it."

Sanders, Summer on preparation   

"If you're prepared, then you're able to feel confident."

Ringer, Robert J. on preparation   

"Thorough preparation makes its own luck."

Poyer, Joe on preparation   

"Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on necessity
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"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."

Eliot, George on meaning
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"Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction."

Carlyle, Thomas on reality   

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

Locke, John on thoughts and thinking
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"In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret."

Sontag, Susan on cinema   

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."

Brando, Marlon on acting and actors   

"No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters."

Eliot, George on books - reading
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"The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons."

Bhagavad Gita on appearance
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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on professions and professionals   

"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fa?ade of his appearance."

Murdoch, Iris on appearance   

"Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof."

Zenji, Dogen on desire   

"It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence."

Lawrence, D. H. on sensitivity   

"In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way."

Leonard, George on adversity
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"Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved."

Hemingway, Ernest on survival   

"It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely."

Malcolm X on capitalism
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"America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you're at the top that long, you forget what it's like in the valley. There are 5+ billion people out there now who are willing to study harder, work harder for less money and be more industrious than we are. And we're linked to them by technology. With telecommunications, you can have your bookkeeping done in Madra, India, for less than it costs here. Today technology can replace whole new industries, so you have to stay flexible. To survive today, you have to be able to walk on quicksand and dance with electrons."

Ogden, Frank on america   

"However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature."

Greene, Graham on suicide
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"Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy."

Berger, John on common sense   

"In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human."

Dworkin, Andrea on men
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"Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity."

Fromm, Erich on integrity
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"A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on idleness   

"Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other."

Sabato, Ernesto on literature   

"Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways."

Jordan, June on children   

"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival."

Chomsky, Noam on repression   

"We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."

Morris, Desmond on curiosity
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"Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?"

Richards, Beah on education   

"The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn."

Greer, Germaine on age and aging   

"Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it."

Nixon, Richard M. on survival