Quotes About Readiness

And, finally, I know, too. That throwing away this mess doesn't mean I'm giving something up. Or losing something I can't get back. It's just that there are too many pieces and too much dust. I'm just ready for something whole." —Pete Cassidy

That would be foolish," he said thoughtfully. " You see, Davie, if I was wanting a man to help me with the lambing I'd never wait until the lambing had started. I'd get him into the way of things before. He'd be some help to me then. It's the same with war. I'll need to learn to be a soldier before the fighting starts. That's the sensible way of doing.

And so we go.' It's my way of saying that I'm prepared for the next adventure. The next chapter. The next challenge. Whatever comes my way, I'm ready for it. Because that truly is the way it was meant to be...

Any time I strap it up and play, I'm ready to turn on versus anybody.

I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.

Vice' came up really quickly. I was doing something else, and I got a call, and I said, 'Absolutely.' It wasn't a lot of time to prepare. I love a lot of lead-in time. But I jumped in.

So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.

Id like to say that if Im playing Shield cricket for Victoria, and Ive put my name up, Im ready to go.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

When you're on a battlefield, you should know how to fight your way to victory, and you've to be very well-prepared for it. You've to be ever ready like the fire-fighters. The moment you get a call, you have to reach wherever you are required.

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

I don't want to rush you. Rush me through what? Us. He let out a low laugh. Babe, I've been here waiting all along. Waiting for you to be ready. He tugged her into his arms. Please rush me.

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight - Gard

There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.

In no case do we have a company that just happened to be sitting on the nose cone of a rocket when it took off.

Perhaps most strikingly of all, it was clear in 1988 that those inside the process had congealed into a permanent political class, the defining characteristic of which was its readiness to abandon those not inside the process.

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

Being nervous is a side effect of being unprepared.

The essential thing is to bear always in mind that trouble can appear at any time. Be aware. Be ready. Be alert.

Don't tell people 'Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today' today. Prepare today and then tell them tomorrow.

Maybe you've met the right person, but you're just not ready to be in love.