Quotes About Preparation

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.

I don't want to stockpile tuna fish and bullets. That's not the world I want to live in.

You know how before you buy a house you hire someone to come check it out and write a homebuyer's report? Someone should do that for husbands. Before you get married, you should have a complete inspection to find out what's broken, if it's fixable, and how much it will cost to repair.

Those who fail to plan are planning to fail.

Any time you put all your eggs in one basket, you're just one stumble away from catastrophe. [Terri]

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

Amateurs beat the bush, seeking to frighten hiding game into the open. Even when this tactic worked, the amateur found himself poorly prepared and poorly positioned for the kill shot. The professional studied his prey, learned its patterns, and positioned

Know your enemy. Know the terrain. Know the conditions under which the battle will be fought.

And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, "Chance favors the prepared mind.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier.

Just because things happen slow doesn't mean you'll be ready for them. If they happened fast, you'd be alert for all kinds of suddenness, aware that speed was trump. "Slow" works in an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there's plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you'll always be slower.

Luck was a luxury, not the basis for a business. Luck had to be a "nice to have," not a "need to have.

He knows that when you snap a mast it's time to get a set of oars or learn how to breathe underwater. Rely on one thing too long and when it disappears and you have nothing–well, that's just bad planning. It's embarrassing, to think it could never happen. It happens.

He beat out a drumroll on the table edge with the first two fingers of each hand.

todos los Abogados —salvo los que se retiren el día de hoy— son, en realidad, el Abogado del mañana.

IF YOU DON'T PLAN YOUR PLAN, IT WILL REMAIN A DREAM

I pull the door open and step inside, bracing myself for the heat and noise, but there is nothing here tonight. Just a few lights flicked on, running up and down the walls, and one long solitary bulb directly over the ring–a soft yellow glow emanating from the metal cage wrapped around it.

Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']

Researchers have speculated that those who fantasize about how wonderful life could be are ill prepared for the setbacks that frequently occur along the rocky road to success, or maybe they enjoy indulging in escapism and so become reluctant to put in the effort required to achieve their goal.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop. "I'm no expert," I began, choosing my words carefully. "Well—actually, I am. And I'm pretty sure there are certain things we have to do before you need to be reading that.

Get your bed ready. Wear the black bra. I didn't plan on wearing one. "God help me," I murmured.