Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
Vice’ came up really quickly. I was doing something else, and I got a call, and I said, ‘Absolutely.’ It wasn’t a lot of time to prepare. I love a lot of lead-in time. But I jumped in.
Sometimes a manager can only do so much, as in prepare a team, and then the team have to go out there and perform.
Women have nine months more experience than you do – nine months to prepare for being a parent.
The surest way to deter adversary aggression is to fully prepare for war.
It’s our way to prepare for games: the music is on before the game and after, so it’s not like because we won we’re going to change it. It’s just because it’s the thing we do; it’s the thing that gets us relaxed, maybe.
I don’t prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don’t choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life’s challenges.
I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.
By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them.
Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you’re in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.
It’s never easy. You think you’re ready but nothing prepares you. You’re knocked for six. No matter how much you want a baby, having one’s totally different.
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We’re preparing for the worst, but we’re hoping for the best. And I’ve told people the end is in sight.
I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.
My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don’t have kids, or there are even some moms who think it’s cheesy. It’s a role you can’t prepare for; it’s a role you don’t get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it’s been the most fulfilling.
Past ‘Drag Race’ alum that I’ve spoken to, their biggest advice to me was, ‘Expect the unexpected,’ and, ‘There’s no way that you can prepare for this,’ so I thought I was at least ahead of the curve knowing that I wasn’t prepared.
My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic – and I think psychotic – way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.
We can’t get bored. We have to prepare like we’re playing the best team in the NFL.
I’m constantly preparing. Material hits me; I’m always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.
His ambition for victory sets Mourinho apart. He wants to win every game, so he prepares all the smallest details; in training, at the game, everything. I loved to work with him.
All I can really control is how I prepare and get ready for whatever team picks me.
Only knowing two hours before the game that you are playing is not a problem. You prepare as though you’re playing. If you don’t, that’s the mistake.
If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team’s strength. But a rank turner might backfire.
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
Instead of getting swept up in a whirlwind of banal ‘holiday’ parties, useless gift exchanges and harried shopping, my family tries hard to use the weeks of Advent to prepare our hearts and home in meaningful ways for the Prince of Peace.
When Chynna was born, the first thing I said when they placed her in my arms was, ‘I’m going to have so much fun with this little girl.’ And I have. I’ve tried to guide her, make her life happy, and just let her prepare for life.
Whenever we go to different places fans in each country prepare something before we go on stage for our encore.
I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
In terms of style, the best advocates are relaxed, clear, in control, and confident. They embrace the hard questions with gusto. But no matter how hard you prepare, it’s impossible to prepare for every conceivable question.
I reached Delhi a few days early for the shooting of Gandhi, to prepare myself for the role by learning to spin the charkha, speak English correctly and take elocution lessons.
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.
I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn’t prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.
Every one of us deserves the right to have a great education that’s going to prepare us and give us the tools that we need in order to thrive outside of school. It’s our government’s responsibility to make sure that everyone is included.
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
There is always a possibility that you could lose, because the outcome isn’t written yet: you have to go out and write it. If you want it bad enough, if you do the training and prepare yourself to succeed, and do everything in your power to win, you’ll have a better chance of succeeding.
The action of ‘Horse Soldiers’ is back-dropped by the story of how America went to war with little time to prepare – but with a lot of moxie.
It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
I know I’m guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don’t really prepare for how much work marriage really is.
I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.
A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.
I don’t think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.
I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.
Having a successful career as a player does not ensure that you will be a good coach, I have to prepare myself.
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
I know I want to do something with kids and help them become better mentally, physically and emotionally. They’re the future after we’re gone. So we have to prepare kids to be adults.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
In Europe, being fast, being strong, playing only with your quality, you are going to struggle against teams that prepare.
You can prepare a list of the qualities you would want in your ideal partner and fall in love with someone totally opposite.
I don’t think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It’s kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.
I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.
Especially as a woman, the jury sums you up immediately and is listening to everything you’re saying. You have to be on your game all the time, and that prepares you for being in front of the camera. The difference is, when I am in front of a jury, I am not talking about my emotions and my life.
