Quotes About Preparation

There was still that strange hesitation and lightness about her, as if she were waiting for life to begin.

If I was aware I would have to tie laces I would not have been able to put my feet into socks.

As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks.

I hadn't thought about what any army trains for. It merely maintains itself here for no exterior purpose.

It was hard not to wonder, as Whitney put the Tesla in park, whether this could possibly be true. The nature of disaster preparedness was so weird, as no one actually knew which disaster to be scared of. Steel doors, for example, weren't going to help with anthrax. Fifty years of gourmet freeze-dried foodstuffs, which a nearby project promised, weren't going to fix a bad marriage.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

En tiempo de paz prepara la guerra" tiene un significado más profundo de lo que parece; quiere decir, no sólo que todas las cosas terrestres tienen un fin, que el cambio es la única ley inmutable y eterna, sino que el terreno de la paz está sembrado con las semillas de la guerra y favorece su germinación y crecimiento.

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

Fortune favors the prepared mind. Beauty seeks attention. Intelligence commands it.

Well, he's scraping up what there is. Reckon we'll need every ready hand when it comes to a battle. Yours too, maybe.' 'Oh, you'll have to hold me back!' Calder slapped the hilt of his sword. 'Can't wait to get started!' 'You ever even drawn the fucking thing?' sneered Tenways, stretching his neck out to spit again. 'Just the once. I had to trim your daughter's hairy cunt before I could get at it.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you're better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that's the last thing you want. So Logen said nothing. Calder could take that for weakness if he pleased, and so much the better. Fights might find Logen depressingly often, but he was long, long past looking for them.

There's always a worse case than your worst case, and more often than not, it happens.

You could never have too many knives in Logen's experience,

Cuando hay que hacer algo, lo mejor es no demorarlo para no tener que vivir temiéndolo.

Observa con atención, habla en tono comedido, sonríe con dulzura, rodéate de amigos, ruega con fervor al Padre Paz que haya calma y ten las espadas a mano. —Órdenes

If you have a plan," hissed Sumael from the corner of her mouth, "now would be the time." "I have a plan," said Nothing. "Does it involve a sword?" asked Jaud. A pause. "All my plans do." "Do you have a sword?" Another. "No." "How will your plan work without one?" muttered Sumael. A third. "Death waits for us all.

A fighting man's a fool that don't keep his weapons clean and ready. Dogman had been over his no more'n an hour before. Still, you won't be killed for checking 'em, while you might be for not doing it.

You don't plan... to fight, Your Majesty?' 'Bloody hell, no. But I plan to damn well look like I might.

It's 'cause it can all go wrong so easily that you make every effort to be sure it goes right.

Ya cruzaremos ese puente cuando lleguemos a él

then feel the emotion ahead of the experience. The elevated emotion (which carries a higher energy

You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights.

Es mejor estar física y mentalmente dispuesto pero no del todo entrenado que lo contrario.

I've never believed in luck. If you perform well, execute, have a good race car and a good race team, you're going to increase your chances dramatically of having better results.