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

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

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.

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

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

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

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

Study men, not historians.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

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.

I don’t do research. I never have.

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.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

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

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

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.

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

If you judge, investigate.

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

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

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

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

Research is creating new knowledge.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

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.‘

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

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

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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