Quotes About Readiness

As a chef, I like to be totally prepared. I'm so big on lists. I love lists.

I always felt that by the time I would leave Chelsea I was ready to be a number one. I'd had a long apprenticeship so when I was to go, it would to be a No. 1.

My first big break was 'White Chicks.' I had only been acting for about two years and I certainly didn't feel like I was ready for such an opportunity. It could only be the hand of God blessing me. I accept everything I'm given with great appreciation.

I get dressed in the same way. Its not a superstition, at least I tell myself its not. Its more a way of getting that brain in gear to do that same thing. I get in the car the same way. Even the guys who are strapping me in the car get their own brains ready to go to work.

Life is full of surprises, and you need to be ready for everything.

Jesus often reminds his followers and friends to discern the difference between what matters and what doesn't; he urges a stripped-down, unencumbered life. And here, he recommends this type of life as a way of staying ready, being wide awake and prepared for what God brings next.

But the real difficulties, the real arts of survival, seem to lie in more subtle realms. There, what's called for is a kind of resilience of the psyche, a readiness to deal with what comes next. These captives lay out in a stark and dramatic way what goes on in every life: the transitions whereby you cease to be who you were.

graduated as I turned twenty, and then realized that the world and I were not ready for each other.

We're young men; we're not ready to die.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.

Don't bother tellin' me what I've got comin' in the morning... I already know. I've got some feel good pills and a red Gatorade by my bed, ready to go!

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.