Preparation Time Quotes

If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

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

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

If I had to name one thing that probably causes more conflict within the band, it's probably the fact that I'm the girl, and it takes much longer with hair and makeup and wardrobe. But they've gotten used to it. It's one of those things I think they realize that when they say she'll be ready in 10 minutes, it normally means 15 or 20.

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.

Whenever a team has three weeks to prepare, and it's an excellent coach and coaching staff and great players, you've got to work on it all.

The makeup [for Count Olaf] took about two and a half hours every morning. The meditation was another hour and a half. I would eat a big breakfast - that was probably 45 minutes. And then it was lunch.

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.

There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

I'm not going to get tired in a 12 round boxing event, especially if I have time to prepare for it.

That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.

I spent a lot of time preparing for releasing music and then not a lot of time releasing music.

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids.

For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.