Preparation Quotes



The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, “Ah Maestro, you are a genius!” Paderewski tartly replied, “Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!” What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

~ Eric Butterworth Quotes

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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

~ David McCullough Quotes from 1776

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Anxiety is caused by lack of control, organization, preparation, and action.

~ David Kekich Quotes

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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

~ Gail Godwin Quotes

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