Quotes About Preparation

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

Many things happen between the cup and the lip.

The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."

A stitch in time saves nine. The early bird catches the worm. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do

The Bombing Two Dauntlesses were launched with 12 percent less than maximum fuel, which would have critical impact later in the morning.

If the world doesn't come to an end in the next thirty or forty years,' he said, 'we may be facing disaster.

Law 35: Master the art of timing "Never seem to be in a hurry – hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time. Always seem patient, as if you know that everything will come to you eventually. Become a detective of the right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times, the trends that will carry you to power. Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe, and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition.

As Pasteur himself commented, "Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Your mind will never go blank when it is that well prepared.

el azar sólo favorece a la mente preparada".

Look wider and think further ahead" must be your motto.

Knowledge, experience, and theory have limitations: no amount of thinking in advance can prepare you for the chaos of life, for the infinite possibilities of the moment.

But despite what you may think, good luck is more dangerous than bad luck. Bad luck teaches valuable lessons about patience,m timing, and the need to be prepared for the worst; good luck deludes you into the opposite lesson, making you think your brilliance will carry you through. Your fortune will inevitably turn, and when it does you will be completely unprepared.

No days unalert." Nothing should catch you by surprise because you are constantly imagining problems before they arise. Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan's happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that might emerge in it. The further you see, the more steps ahead you plan, the more powerful you become.

Reserva tu prudencia para las horas de la preparación; pero una vez empezado el combate, vacía tu mente de dudas. Ignora a quienes se acobardan ante cualquier revés y piden el repliegue.

Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.

The fact is, as the proverb says, before you can cook your rabbit you first have to catch it.

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter in the world. - J. V. Stalin

short, the preconference is intended to set the stage for what will be the focus of the comprehensive observation.

Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.