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A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
I think with any movie, directing is more in the preparation. You just have to prepare for everything that's going to happen.
What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.
Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.
I felt good in all my fights. It's all in the preparation. I prepare myself for all of them. And I felt good in all my fights.
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.
I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.
It doesn't take a lot of preparation for the Rumble compared to how you would prepare for a match where it's you and another guy.
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
As long as you put the effort in with your practice, the muscles in your arm stay relaxed and mental preparation is all it takes.
We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.
Nobody has had a bigger influence on me as far as day-to-day preparation than Todd Lickliter. He was a huge, huge, huge influence.
Death frames the high wire. But I don’t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
What I miss the most is the locker room, the dinners after the games. The preparation, the sense of going out there and be a team.
Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.
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.
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
When you are not scoring runs for the last two-three games, then you need to get that form back; preparation is the best thing to do.
I love English football because it's real football. I love everything that surrounds it. The public, the atmosphere, the preparation.
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.
The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.
Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.
The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
My style is part of my lifestyle and part of my preparation to get ready to play in the game. It's my preparation for life, I should say.
One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.
The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage.
The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species.
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.
I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.
It's my favorite part of the preparation. When we get a pressure figured out and pick it up, those are the plays that fire me up the most.
You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.
I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.