Quotes About Preparation

Teaching is like having a bank account. You can happily draw on it while it is well supplied with new funds; otherwise you're in difficulties. Every teacher should have a fund of ready information on which to draw; he should keep that fund supplied regularly by new experiences, new thoughts and discoveries, by reading and moving around among people from whom he can acquire such things.

If your opportunity comes and you are not prepared for it, it will only make you look foolish.

Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity, and opportunity is there all the time.

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

Mind you do your dying right! Most of us only get one chance at it.

Finally, after three long, hot, and dry weeks, we were at the end of training. We were snipers! Marine scout-snipers! DuBay chaired a formal meeting and pronounced each of us ready, trained, and real live, bonafide snipers. And damned if we didn't think we were.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.

Building a relationship begins with attitudinal preparation, a conscious process of building the right kind of mind-set.

Haley wondered to herself as she packed a sample of virtually every over-the-counter medication she was allowed to take into her travel bag. Insect

bag. Of course I had thought about it. I had thought of little else since signing the sales agreement. The closing wouldn't be for a few

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready to take advantage of them.

Era curiosa la forma como había adoptado el dolor que sentía. Había tenido tanto tiempo para prepararme para esa noticia, que más se me iba el alma en comparar lo que sentía con mis especulaciones previas que sentir ese dolor liso y llano de haber perdido a mi amigo.

Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared) will muddle through to a freer, more open, less crowded, green and spacious agrarian society. (Maybe; of course it may be only a repeat of the middle ages.)

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

You Mean It You cook because you decide to cook. You decide to take it on and everything that comes with it. You cook because you mean it. Your heart and hands work more and more in alignment with your clear intention. You'll see it through because you decided to see it through—and because the work itself is making your love manifest. Food appears!

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

When all else fails, pray for a fire drill.

The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans.

Jesus saves! The rest of us better make backups.