thorough preparation Quotes

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

You can't show up on set and expect it all to come together. You have to have a plan, much like how the director can't just show up and go, well, where should I put the camera? That is gonna determine how it is lit, you should have already been in the room looking at it earlier, pre-lit the room, you know there is a lot of prep that goes into it, so it is the same thing with acting. You can't just show up.

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

You prepare. You study. You've got to be ready for anything.

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 compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.

The definition of success is total preparation.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo.

I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

If you're not overprepared, you're underprepared.

Over-learning & over-preparing gives you the winning edge in any area.

I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.

When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.