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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

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

And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.

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.

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

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.

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

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.