Quotes About Preparation

Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.

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then I'll buy a dozen related books to help me prepare for the teaching component.

If you spend years and years dialing 4-1-1 and never practice 9-1-1, then under stress you are likely to dial 4-1-1.

The best advice I was ever given for testifying in court was simply to "Take . . . your . . . time.

Every pro ball team on the planet has "lights out" by at least 10 or 11 o'clock the night before a game.

If a pro ball player stays up the night before a game, playing video games or watching TV, the other players would kick his tail, the coach would fine him, and that nonsense would stop immediately.

in training helps to take some of the surprise out of it when the real situation arises.

Brasidas of Sparta said that, "Fear makes men forget, and skill that cannot fight is useless.

Can we teach our officers to shoot too well? I don't think so. If we trained our officers in first aid, and everyone they treated survived, did we train them too well? If we trained our officers in driving, and they never had anymore accidents, did we train them too well? If someone must die in an armed encounter, let it be the subject who is initiating the hostile action, and not another officer.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats of violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery. They have not thought about it (incredible as this may appear to anyone who reads the papers or listens to the news) and they just don't know what to do. When they look right into the face of depravity or violence they are astonished and confounded.

Whatever is drilled in during training comes out the other end in combat.

Do not expect the combat fairy to come bonk you with the combat wand and suddenly make you capable of doing things that you never rehearsed before. It will not happen.

Whatever you drill for ahead of time will be there for you in combat. No more, no less. If you drill for specific verbal commands, then you dramatically increase the likelihood that at the moment of truth those commands will be available to you under stress.

The reality is that Murphy doesn't visit as much, but when he does, we hardly notice his presence. When Sharon and I were broke, our heating-and-air system quit, and the repair cost $580. It was a huge, hairy deal. Recently I had a new $570 water heater installed because the old one started leaking, and I hardly noticed. I wonder if the stress relief that your Total Money Makeover provides will allow you to live longer?

Live no one else today, so you can live like no else tomorrow

Parents, you need to understand something: someone is going to teach your kids about money. It will either be you, or it will be a shady car dealer, a credit card pusher on your child's first day at college, a get-rich-quick infomercial pitchman, or just some clown who's after their money. If you want to protect your kids, you need to send them out into the world with some knowledge.

You see, if you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

So during the rainy season the prudent person carries an umbrela, while the reckless person does not and, of course, gets wet when it rains. Prudence is not precise knowledge, but a willingness to adapt to circumstances in the shortest possible time.

Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.

To fatten a pig, a farmer will feed him well. The pig must think his life a paradise, never knowing he gorges himself so that he will be fatter for the knife later on.

keeping his eyes moving as he looked ahead for any surprises that might be waiting for him. The camera drone rose up above and then moved away, and Roscoe continued his purposeful walk. He reached the center after a few minutes and looked around, but he was alone. That was normal, he knew; the other person within the fenced arena would be doing his best to stay out of sight until the last possible moment. That was completely understandable, Roscoe felt. After all, there weren't very

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.