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Quotes About Preparation

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
~ Robert Jordan
If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.
~ Robert Jordan
Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
~ Robert Jordan
Why didn't you guess this would happen? Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. Light, Elayne said. You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.
~ Robert Jordan
Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.
~ Robert Jordan
First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.
~ Robert Jordan
It looks a good plan to me. As good as any till the arrows start flying.
~ Robert Jordan
This is it, Egwene," Mat said. "Take a deep breath, a last pull on the brandy, or burn your final pinch of tabac. Have a good look at the ground before you, as it's soon going to be covered in blood. In an hour, we'll be in the thick of it. The Light watch over us all.
~ Robert Jordan
If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant." "I
~ Robert Jordan
It is all right to plan for the worst possibilities, but you must not bask in them. You must not fixate on them.
~ Robert Jordan
clutching his blanket around him. Using every bit of skill he had gained stalking
~ Robert Jordan
Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.
~ Robert Jordan
Taim will have to wait
~ Robert Jordan
Everything always changes. The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow.
~ Robert Jordan
Kesabaran adalah kebajikan yang harus dipelajari, tetapi kita semua harus siap untuk perubahan secepat apapun - Sheriam
~ Robert Jordan
A plan revealed is a plan doomed to fail.
~ Robert Jordan
Siempre debéis prever lo peor, hijas; de ese modo, todas las sorpresas que recibáis serán agradables.
~ Robert Jordan
Rest well. And eat well tonight. In the morning, eat nothing. It is not good to dance the spears with a full stomach.
~ Robert Jordan
The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow.
~ Robert Jordan
Leafblighter means to blind the Eye of the World, Lost One. He means to slay the Great Serpent. Warn the People, Lost One. Sightburner comes. Tell them to stand ready for He Who Comes With the Dawn. Tell them. . . .
~ Robert Jordan
A trap isn't really a trap if you know it's there," he said absently, bending the end of one of the severed wires a little to line up better with its mate. "If you know it's there, maybe you can see a way to walk in so it isn't a trap at all.
~ Robert Jordan
You lost concentration," Lan told him. "You must hold on to that even when your muscles turn to water. Lose it, and that is the day you die. And it will probably be a farmboy who has his hands on a sword for the first time who does it." His smile was sudden, odd on that stony face.
~ Robert Jordan
It seemed to Rand like years since there had not been firewood to split. But complaining would not keep the house warm, so he fetched the axe, propped up bow and quiver beside the chopping block, and got to work. Pine for a quick, hot flame, and oak for long burning.
~ Robert Jordan
criminal law, a field that presented many of the same conditions and offered many of the same rewards as topflight athletics. It had the same elements of intense preparation and concentration, of confrontation in a circumscribed arena, where passion and aggression were bound by elaborate rules, of the final decision, and the emotional charge that went with it: won, lost, guilty, not guilty.
~ Robert K. Tanenbaum