Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.
I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.
Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'
You have to be prepared to take a spill.
Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.
What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.
I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.
Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.
The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.
I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married.
I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.
From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.
I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.
The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.
Nothing, I find, has prepared me for the sight of my own characters walking about. A playwright or screenwriter must expect it; a novelist doesn't and naturally concludes that she has gone mad.
The most prepared are the most dedicated.
If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.
If I spend all of my day in the details as a CEO of a company like Wal-Mart, I think it would be trouble, because I wouldn't really be prepared to speak to the big issues that the country or the world should face.
If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.
You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
