Quotes About Preparation

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I'll be glad I did then.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one's replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.

People are training for success when they should be training for failure.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.