Quotes About Readiness

Family life during the early elementary years is our point of departure. Lower socioeconomic status (SES) and disadvantaged minority youth begin school already behind on all criteria commonly used to gauge school readiness

It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion will be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

And this led Schlick to formulate a succinct moral principle: "Sei glücksbereit! " or, rendered literally in English, "Be ready for happiness!" The spirit of the remark, however, is perhaps more accurately caught by the less compact phrase "Always be ready to give happiness a chance!

and began to go through the gear spread out

what's generally expected, and come prepared.

My insides started itching and my feet started hopping, one then the other,because they were 10 min. Past being ready to go.

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

No man lived a more strong and beautiful life than did John Wesley, and his view of death was that whenever it came he would be found at his duty; and the transition from that duty to heaven's service would be a natural one. Instead of death, let the Lord be expected; and the true attitude of life will be that of quiet pursuit of duty and constant readiness to greet Him.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Ibland hittar böckerna inte fram till oss förrän tiden är mogen (s. 103).

J was both with me and aware of me, and ready to show me how to do whatever was asked of me.

How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Frisbees are like towels - you should never leave home without one.

When the student is ready, the master appears.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when *it* thinks you're ready.

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.

What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Football, if I can say, is an everlasting new beginning. You always question yourself, but you have to be ready not just mentally but physically as well. You have to be fit and take care of your body.

There are times when your mind isn't ready to go but your body is, and times when your body is ready to go but your mind isn't. You try to get the two in sync as much as possible.

You see opportunity... Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you're ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.