70 Gearing Up Quotes

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A winning effort begins with preparation. — Joe Gibbs

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. — John Wooden

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. — Henry Ford

Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up. — Muhammad Ali

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. — Pat Riley

Proper preparation prevents poor performance. — Charlie Batch

After I get the belt, I will be well prepared to face anyone they put in front of me. — Amanda Nunes

Preparedness is the key to success and victory. — Douglas MacArthur

In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment. — Subcomandante Marcos

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought. — Miguel de Cervantes

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. — Benjamin Franklin

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools. — Confucius

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick. — Steve Bull

I've been prepping for my role as Medusa. — Joaquin Phoenix

Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat. — Sun Tzu

Short Gearing Up Quotes

  • I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. — Maria Callas
  • A bold onset is half the battle. — Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • The most prepared are the most dedicated. — Raymond Berry
  • You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever. — Alicia Keys
  • Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith — Michael Scofield
  • To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success. — Jose Bergamin
  • Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there. — Victor H. Krulak
  • If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. — Will Smith
  • If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. — Steve Prefontaine
  • I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation. — Johnnie Cochran

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More Gearing Up Quotes

I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos. — Bo Gritz

Success isn’t the same as talent. The world is full of incredibly talented people who never succeed at anything. They show up, do what they do, and if it doesn’t work out, they blame everyone else because they believe talent should be enough. It’s not. If you want to be truly successful, you can’t be content with 'pretty good'. You need to find an extra gear. — Tim Grover

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up. — Pia Zadora

I convinced my wife to let me climb Everest. I emptied my savings and took out a loan so I could afford to make the trip. I wanted to do it solo and I pushed myself too hard. I was carrying too much gear and got altitude sickness. I meditated to the point where I was feeling better, but didn't make it up, because I got involved with a rescue. — Nirmal Purja

A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their cameras toward the UFO.... I had chance to hold (the film) up to the window. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt in my mind that it was made someplace other than on this earth. — Gordon Cooper

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear. — Gene Simmons

There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible. — P. J. O'Rourke

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up. — Richie Benaud

[on the BMW X3] If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning and think you are an onion, here's your car. — Jeremy Clarkson

If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis. — Tyler Cowen

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs. — Phyllis Schlafly

I mean its a weekly occurrence that somebody will complain that Top Gear was on last night - and you just sit back and wait for the complaints. But if you start to pay attention to everyones concerns, you end up with something bland and boring. So you sort of have to ignore everybody in order to do the show how we want to do it. — Jeremy Clarkson

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear. — Ben Elton

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time. — Amanda Burton

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. — Alison Bechdel

I read The Vegetarian and fell in love with it. A year later, I was invited to go and speak at the London Book Fair (which I'd never even heard of before), as they were gearing up for Korea being the market focus country in 2014. I met Max Porter there, Kang's editor at Portobello, sent him my sample, and the rest is history. — Deborah Smith

Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley. — Jeremy Clarkson

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better. — R. Lee Ermey

I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm! — Rodney Atkins

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear! — Nigel Dennis

I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing. — John Feldmann

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle. — Anthony Rizzo

It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves. — Aron Ralston

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll. — Pete Townshend

It's too easy when you're not winning to look for excuses and point at others for reasons. You ca say 'Oh well, it's this guys fault or they don't do this well', or you can say 'I've got to play better and contribute more'. You've got to find another gear and come up with big games. — Sean Burke

As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you. — Scott Westerfeld

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear. — Demetri Martin

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates. — Arthur C. Brooks

I rang up Jay Kay, who's got one, and said: 'Can we borrow yours?' and he said, 'Yeah, if I can borrow your daughter, because it amounts to the same thing.' — Sayings

Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that? — Winston Churchill

God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place. — Jeremy Clarkson

Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities. We may age graciously into simplicity and love, allowing the power from our sense of well-being to permeate the atmosphere around us, or we may vault into older age revved up and in high gear. — Sue Thoele

I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing. — Colin Firth

I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector. — Dick Cheney

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day. — Georgie Fame

You could tell that America was gearing up for war. — Jack Adams

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do. — Michael East

Yes, the rise in corporate power had roots in the gearing up for the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was a Whig, a supporter of government aid to expanding industry - to "internal improvements" that supported the growth of business. He was an early capitalist, not one who wanted to preserve some rural paradise. — William Lee Miller

Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to destroy them with massive propaganda attack ads and so on. It was one after another, each one crazier than the last. — Noam Chomsky

I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't want to exhaust what it is you're writing about, so the next day you would have to gear up for a brand new scene. — Carolyn See

I think it all started with the tuna sandwich, and then, on the road, gearing up for New York, Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] had the idea of having a tuna puppet, which became Tony Tuna, and their friend Cammi Upton designed that and did a great job. — Alex Timbers

I don't like doing stand-up for little kids. It's not geared for that. — Tracy Morgan

One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone. For a lot of people they just want to see you or want to take a photograph of that moment. Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. — Jason Mraz

I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go. — Chad Harbach

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