Quotes About Readiness

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

I've done everything I could as a bench coach. I'm ready to manage.

If I'm on the bench, I want to be ready.

My best ability was in just being ready when I was called upon. Then, I would be fit, and my legs would be light. If you sulk and are on the bench, and the gaffer calls you on, you are not ready because there's something going on in your head.

I don't want to be known as a super sub. But you have got to be ready to come off the bench and make an impact if you're not in the starting team.

The key to making acquisitions is being ready because you really never know when the right big one is going to come along.

The biggest thing I learned is that you have to be prepared. You have to have an answer, and if you don't have an answer, get one and give it.

I don't think you just can put people on the starting block and then wait... for the next Ebola-like epidemic. I think that you need somehow a small-capacity response who's going to run the first few kilometers of the marathon.

Work on your game. Block everything else out. Don't worry about your brand. Work on your game. So you can come into the league ready and prepared.

When you're gone from the game so much you miss those things, like just being able to throw a bullpen and work on stuff and having all this time to prepare for the season.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

No matter where I'm going, I always have sunglasses, a book, and some gum in my carry-on.

We lead our lives so poorly because we arrive in the present always unprepared, incapable, and too distracted for everything.

There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one's efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. (Letters on Life)

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for, and it's really a manifestation of his character. And it's amusing, the way in which the landscape and the conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he's ready for is the one that he gets.

May it not be charged against them!" First Peter 3:15 uses the word defense in a way that denotes the kind of defense one would make to a legal inquiry, asking, "Why are you a Christian?" A believer ought to give an adequate answer to this question. The command to be ready with an answer is directed toward every follower of Jesus—not just pastors, teachers, and leaders.

The Holy Spirit knows precisely the right timing in our lives. I always say, Only the Holy Spirit knows when you are ready for what. In other words, the Spirit of the Lord is the only One Who knows what it will take to help you, and when you are ready to receive help.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind. 1 PETER 1:13 KJV

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. EPHESIANS 6:14–15 NIV

I have always been here," Qui-Gon said. "Being ready is your choice, my Padawan.

But you have to be sure you can handle the situation before you jump into it.

There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin NOW.