Quotes About Readiness

Wherever a great heart throbs and rages, wherever a liberating thought flares up, there Athena is present, summoned rather by heroic readiness than by humble supplication. From her own lips we hear that she is attracted by prowess, not by good will or devotion to her person. The men who can most surely rely upon her offer her no unusual reverence, and it is unthinkable that her assistance should ever be motivated by the exemplary obedience of her protégés.

The tasks that we studied varied considerably in their effects on the pupil. At baseline, our subjects were awake, aware, and ready to engage in a task—probably at a higher level of arousal and cognitive readiness than usual.

psychologist Paul Bloom, writing in The Atlantic in 2005, presented the provocative claim that our inborn readiness to separate physical and intentional causality explains the near universality of religious beliefs.

Finally (Evangeline) whispered, "I wish that I had been more prepared." "We prepare all of our lives for such moments," Dr. Raphael said, crossing his arms and looking at me with a critical gaze. "When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

So my conscience chide me not, I am ready for Fortune as she wills.

Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.

Antes que me llamen, yo les responderé

If you spend years and years dialing 4-1-1 and never practice 9-1-1, then under stress you are likely to dial 4-1-1.

in training helps to take some of the surprise out of it when the real situation arises.

Whatever is drilled in during training comes out the other end in combat.

Whatever you drill for ahead of time will be there for you in combat. No more, no less. If you drill for specific verbal commands, then you dramatically increase the likelihood that at the moment of truth those commands will be available to you under stress.

Training At The Speed Of Life

We operate on the philosophy that it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it.

As the old saying goes, "Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Prior preparation prevents poor performance.

The Holy One's nearness, the readiness to name the Holy One as God, and the recognition of God as Father.

Okay," Alec said, slipping off his backpack. "This is it. Let's get ourselves fed and watered up. Then we're going in hot and heavy.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

Call it fate, call it luck, but we Lankshire men think the more prepared we are the luckier we get, if you get my meaning.

Kaleidoscopes and pendulums—Roosevelt's images connoted an abiding belief in the hard lesson of his crucible philosophy: All one can do is to prepare oneself, to wait in readiness for what might come.

All one can do is to prepare oneself, to wait in readiness for what might come.

Nothing is more powerful than this nihilism, an angry readiness to throw everything overboard, a willingness, a longing to become part of dissolution. This emotion is one of the strongest reasons why wars continue. And

Nothing is more powerful than this nihilism, an angry readiness to throw everything overboard, a willingness, a longing to become part of dissolution.