I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I don’t do research. I never have.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Education is the best provision for old age.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Service of any type requires preparation.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.