Quotes About Preparation

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

Here's a quote from ultramarathoner Dick Collins: Decide before the race the conditions that will cause you to stop and drop out. You don't want to be out there saying, "Well gee, my leg hurts, I'm a little dehydrated, I'm sleepy, I'm tired, and it's cold and windy." And talk yourself into quitting. If you are making a decision based on how you feel at that moment, you will probably make the wrong decision.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

It doesn't hurt to ask Actually, it does hurt. It does hurt to ask the wrong way, to ask without preparation, to ask without permission. It hurts because you never get another chance to ask right.

If you had a chance to do a TED talk, what would it be about? What have you discovered, what do you know, what can you teach? You should do one. Even if you don't do one, you should be prepared to do one.

The time to develop a multiple income source strategy is not when you run out of money. Then it will be too late.

Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly reexperiencing failure in advance. What a waste.

Industries don't die by surprise. It's not as if you didn't know it was coming. It's not as if you didn't know whom to call (or hire).

We can schedule for it. Thursday, April 3rd, 3:05…start something. We can train for it, plan for it, announce it, and even hire for it. If initiating is as essential to the modern organization as it appears, we better be doing all of that and more.

Grant was as usual a good deal more intent on what he had in mind to do to the enemy than he was on what the enemy might or might not do to him.

You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot

The last days are not for the faint of heart or the spiritually out of shape.

The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren

You know you're the only man alive I'd ever follow after what I've been through. You're also the only one I respect. (Urian) And you're one of the extremely few I trust. (Acheron) Brothers? (Urian) Brothers to the end. Now before we get all girly and cry, get your ass upstairs and prepare for what's coming. (Acheron)

Don't worry, Chris. The day that Sony PlayStation attacks the world and threatens to destroy it, we'll give you a call. (Katra)

I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.

Sundown- When the sun must make peace with the moon and for a few brief moments, the two touch in mutual friendship and respect. Perfect balance between the light and dark. A time for reflection and for preparation.

In that case, we need to seriously arm ourselves. (Sin) Hail Mary, full of grace – (Kish) What are you doing? You're not Catholic. (Damien) Yeah, but I'm feeling really religious all of a sudden and it seemed like a good idea. (Kish)

All right, kids. We're going to a party where they don't like us very much. Everyone know what they're doing? (Sin) Not a clue, but I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by a light rain of guys and flayed skin. (Kish)

So we're talking into death? (Alix) Gods, I hope not. I don't have on the right boots for it. These are only good for a mild ass-whipping. (Devyn)

You know it might help if you'd actually told all of us about them before we run across them. Had you not shown up just now, I'd have been locked in a useless game of Whac-a-Mole, trying to kill them with a knife through the heart. I could have been gallu Daimon kibble. Really not cool, Sin." – Sundown

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.