preparing

So, when people tell me that they're waiting for their big break or waiting to be noticed, I tell them to take the word "waiting" out of their vocabulary and substitute it with the word "preparing."

Mike Ragogna: Chatting With Cobra Starship's Ryland Blackinton, Plus Jimmy Jam and Jason Reeves, and The Real Tuesday Weld Video Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011

So, when people tell me that they're waiting for their big break or waiting to be noticed, I tell them to take the word "waiting" out of their vocabulary and substitute it with the word "preparing."

Mike Ragogna: Chatting With Cobra Starship's Ryland Blackinton, Plus Jimmy Jam and Jason Reeves, and The Real Tuesday Weld Video Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011

But if it's for "a picture book" then many minds are involved -- artist, writer, editor, designer -- to an extent that I would venture exceeds the similarly creative collaboration involved in preparing a words-only manuscript for publication.

Not since . . . Roger Sutton 2008

Both principal designate posts are set to start from Easter this year, with the successful candidates spending a term preparing for the opening of the academy in the existing school buildings.

EDP24 News 2010

Both principal designate posts are set to start from Easter this year, with the successful candidates spending a term preparing for the opening of the academy in the existing school buildings.

EDP24 News 2010

Both principal designate posts are set to start from Easter this year, with the successful candidates spending a term preparing for the opening of the academy in the existing school buildings.

EDP24 News 2010

For her, the value of creative writing is in "preparing" readers for the inability to be prepared.

Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

As Carlson notes, this trauma is the work of literature itself: For [Shelley], the value of creative writing is in 'preparing' readers for the inability to be prepared.

Introduction 2008

This obviously requires more overview than detail, but in preparing for it I was not sufficiently organized to do more than stumble from detail to detail, rather than soaring as I ought to have done.

Festina Lente « Unknowing 2010

Energy producing plants must begin preparing to produce 15% of their energy from renewable sources

Matthew Yglesias » Myths of 1996 2010