Quotes About Preparation

You can live here as you expect to live there.

Anticipate your final hours.

If there were anything harmful on the other side of death, they would have made sure that the ability to avoid it was within you.

Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly

The Art of Living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen - and is not apt to fall.

But literature served only as a preparation for the real goal. This was rhetoric, the key to an active political career under the empire, as it had been under the Republic.

Be not deceived; for thou shalt never live to read thy moral commentaries, nor the acts of the famous Romans and Grecians; nor those excerpta from several books; all which thou hadst provided and laid up for thyself against thine old age. Hasten therefore to an end, and giving over all vain hopes, help thyself in time if thou carest for thyself, as thou oughtest to do.

To wait until the emergency is to be too late.

and to foresee things a long way off

El arte de vivir es más parecido al de la lucha que al de la danza en la medida que, ante lo que le cae a uno de improviso, hay que mantenerse preparado y sin caerse.

The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.

The art of true living in this world is more like a wrestler's, than a dancer's practice. For in this they both agree, to teach a man whatsoever falls upon him, that he may be ready for it, and that nothing may cast him down.

Don't helicopter in at seventeen thousand feet, because sooner or later you and your people will die on the mountain.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

A wise man's life is all one preparation for death.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

I´ll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that´s how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.

I've been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first in your head, and then you make it real.

Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.