Pastoral Resources

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.