Quotes About Preparation

Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.

For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a strategem.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear -- when you are the hammer, strike.

For all your years prepare, And meet them ever alike; When you are the anvil, bear-- When you are the hammer, strike.

For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.

Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened.

Adopting the wrong way; reaching a wrong destination; therefore, observe all dimensions before starting and moving.

Before action, realize and estimate its outcome; it shows a clear picture of risks, for deciding accurately.

Saving money Today secures, eases, and beautifies Tomorrow.

Success requires not the previous preparation since it depends on luck and insight, and that both are timeless; thus, such planning can't be a guarantee and warranty for success.

Unlike other men, he was able to find pleasure in any job that he was given, but this was not simply because he was born poor. Rather, he saw the work at hand as a preparation for the next task. He was convinced that this was the way he would one day realize his ambitions.

Why was it that the only choices that truly mattered were the ones you felt least prepared to make?

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Your happiness and excellence as men depend greatly upon the use you make of your time while you are boys, for now you are building, habit by habit and thought by thought, the characters which you will have when you are men.

Every time you meet a crisis and live through it, you make it simpler for the next time.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

For example, I came to my exams very well prepared, but if the professor were suddenly to ask me, "Do you know from what works I derive the authority on the basis of which I teach this subject in this university?" I wouldn't know what to answer. But the others knew. So I moved among them fearful of saying and doing the wrong things.

It was predictable, of course, but now that a date had been fixed, March 12th, it was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

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Una lunga, costosa preparazione. Un ridurmi a tavola imbandita per l'appetito sessuale del maschio, a vivanda ben cucinata perché gli venga l'acquolina in bocca. E poi l'angoscia di non farcela, di non sembrare bella, di non essere riuscita a celare con destrezza la volgarità della carne con i suoi umori e odori e difformità.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.