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The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think when you focus on the work, it becomes a simpler pursuit.

— Sarah Gadon

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

— Marilu Henner

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.

— John Desmond Bernal

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

— Brendan Fraser

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

— Charles de Saint-Évremond

The majority of my work is about preparation.

— Taryn Simon

✗Opposing Perspectives

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

— Bruce Lee

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.

— Jill Lepore

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

— John Ruskin

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

— George Allen, Sr.