Quotes About Preparation

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Man plans, and god laughs. Like the ant and the grasshopper.

We're not going to do better next time.

To get the most out of what you wanted, you had to have what you needed first.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.

The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

He carefully studies the position that he intends to conquer.

The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

I always know where the scissors are.

Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.