logo

Quotes About Preparation

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.
~ Daniel Silva, The Kill Artist
Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.
~ Bill Gates
I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.
~ Andy Stanley
To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.
~ Roy Scheider
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
~ Simone Weil
I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.
~ Tamera Mowry
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance
~ Paul Taylor
Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
~ Paulo Coelho
The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.
~ Thomas Dreier
before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes.
~ Dylan Thomas
Most of what our students need to know hasn't been discovered or invented yet. "Learning how to learn" used to be an optional extra in education; today, it's a survival skill.
~ Dylan Wiliam
Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
~ E. B. White
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
~ E. B. White
Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
~ E. Lockhart
the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
~ E. Lockhart
Jule believed that the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
~ E. Lockhart
She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
~ E. M. Forster
Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. It is necessary to prepare for an examination, or a dinner-party, or a possible fall in the price of stock: those who attempt human relations must adopt another method, or fail.
~ E.M. Forester
Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy.
~ E.M. Forster
Her thought drew being from the obscure borderland. She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. It is necessary to prepare for an examination, or a dinner-party, or a possible fall in the price of stock: those who attempt human relations must adopt another method or fail.
~ E.M. Forster
for they regarded travel as a species of warfare, only to be undertaken by those who have been fully armed at the Haymarket Stores.
~ E.M. Forster
Well, din-din's nearly ready
~ E.M. Forster