Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone
Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you, so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.
‐‐ Albert Pujols
Preparation starts after the game before.
‐‐ Austin Seferian-Jenkins
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
‐‐ Tecumseh
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
‐‐ George S. Patton
Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand
Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi
Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!
‐‐ Shunryu Suzuki
Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!
‐‐ Guy Fieri
Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It's interesting to sample the foods of other Jewish communities and see what they developed.
‐‐ Gil Marks
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.
‐‐ Thomas Menino
Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.
‐‐ Rick Renzi
Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
‐‐ Dan Quisenberry
Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
‐‐ Maynard James Keenan
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce
Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.
‐‐ Mike McCarthy
Preseason game plans are always about fundamentals and playing football. You're not trying to out-scheme anybody, you're just trying to beat people and out-execute people. That's what's fun to me.
‐‐ Matt Flynn
Presence is more than just being there.
‐‐ Malcolm Forbes
'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.
‐‐ Dave Gahan
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
‐‐ Barney Oliver
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
‐‐ Martin Amis
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
‐‐ Bobby Scott
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce
Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.
‐‐ Marc Benioff
Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
‐‐ Jonny Greenwood
Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
‐‐ Phil Donahue
Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
‐‐ Michael Caine
Presently, I really admire Rebecca Warren, the artist. She continues to keep creating wonderful sculpture. And I met her, and she is really cool.
‐‐ Russell Tovey
Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.
‐‐ Jon Porter
Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.
‐‐ Judith Martin
Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
‐‐ Anne Lamott
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
‐‐ Gabriel Byrne
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
‐‐ Cesar Chavez
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
‐‐ Giacomo Meyerbeer
Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
‐‐ Dee Hock
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
‐‐ Hesiod
Preserve the President's options. He may need them.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld
Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.
‐‐ Jim Fowler
Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.
‐‐ Mel Carnahan
Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.
‐‐ Frank Luntz
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.
‐‐ Susan Minot
Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
‐‐ Bill Ackman
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
‐‐ Mason Cooley
President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.
‐‐ Benjamin Netanyahu
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley