Quotes About Readiness

Is it so easy to change a cultural vision? Ease and difficulty are not the relevant measures. Here are the relevant measures: Readiness and unreadiness. If people aren't ready for it, then no power on earth can make a new idea catch on. But if people are ready for it (and I think they are), then a new idea will sweep the world like wildfire.

The relevant measures are not ease and difficulty. The relevant measures are readiness and unreadiness. If the time isn't right for a new idea, no power on earth can make it catch on, but if the time is right, it will sweep the world like wildfire.

You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.

When the student is ready, the master appears.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

The key to success is to start before you are ready.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice!.

Something she'd gotten from Burton and the Corps, that you didn't do things in the clothes you sat around in. You got yourself squared away, then your intent did too.

Teachings are given to different men under different circumstances and in different times... [but] ...the Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. If a parent commands a little child not to play with matches, and then commands a teenager to light the campfire, is this a contradiction? It's only a question of preparedness - one is ready and one is not.

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

When Death comes, I want to be ready.

Information that might be useful—or at least good to know before we open the way again. Forewarned is forearmed.

When one is ready, when we choose, the understanding will be a part of life. Then we are guided very differently.

she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.

Is my mind closed? No. It's wide open. I'm always waiting.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

My readiness to admit to my fallibility is perhaps rather English, but I hope that the problems I describe will be familiar to doctors and patients everywhere.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

Touch me, he thought, and all he could think was: love me, and all he could think was: why I never prepare for this moment better? Look how I had all these years of life to ready myself for your arrival, and what I did with them? Wasted them on other women, and other ideas, and now you here, I not ready. He wanted to sit in front of her and have her tell him everything she'd ever experienced in all of her life.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.