Quotes About Preparation

He saw dozens of permutations in how things could play out, planned for every eventuality, strategized for each and every possible future.

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you'd been preparing for them?

Just be careful" implies that there's an end to it all, maybe in an hour, maybe in three years, but an end just the same.

Raylan got ready.

He called out to no one in particular, Fire in the Hole!

Clement said it was like conditioning, prepar-ing for the ball-clutching moments of life while building your sphincter muscle. After lying in front of a freight train you can lie in bed in your underwear while two cops are visiting, asking about a certain black Buick—and while a mean-looking Walther P.38 automatic is hidden nearby at that very moment—and not worry about making doo-doo in the bed.

Worrying never heads off a crisis, and it doesn't prepare you for one.

Es una tontería lamentarse de una desgracia con veinte años de anticipación.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

I notice where Death has been introduced, he frequently calls, making it desirable to forestall his advances.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

I'll be in Heaven getting your room ready.

I'm just preparing the way, just like John the Baptist for Our Lord.

You can have anything in life that you really want, but you must be prepared to take the responsibilities that go with it. God is ready the moment you are.

With Dick at his heels, puzzled and surprised, Julian went to find Mr Penruthlan. There he was, watching the Barnies getting ready to go, looking very dour

No one's ever really ready for a troll.

Isn't reading a kind of preparation for life?' But life is composed of things other than books. It is as if an athlete, on entering the stadium, were to complain that he's not outside exercising.This was the goal of your exercise, of your weights, your practice ring and your training partners.

You would fain be victor at the Olympic Games, you say. Yes, but weigh the conditions, weigh the consequences; then and then only, lay to your hand-if it be for your profit. You must live by rule, submit to diet, abstain from dainty meats, exercise your body perforce at stated hours, in heat or in cold; drink no cold water, nor, it may be, wine. In a word, you must surrender yourself wholly to your trainer, as though to a physician.

Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.

Proper preparation for the future consists of forming good personal habits.

Apropos of which, Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

The possession of a particular talent is instinctively sensed by its owner; [31] so if any of you are so blessed you will be the first to know it. [32] It is true, however, that no bull reaches maturity in an instant, nor do men become heroes overnight. We must endure a winter training, and can't be dashing into situations for which we aren't yet prepared.

You must realize that death and illness are bound to overtake us whatever it is we're doing. They overtake the farmer at the plough, the sailor at the helm; [6] what do you want to be doing when they come upon you? Because you have to be doing something when you go; and if you can find anything better than this to be doing, then do it by all means.

Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.