Quotes About Preparation

It's better to train for a battle that never comes, than to die in one you aren't prepared for. -Clear Sky

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

More tough love is needed, of the sort that makes one throw a child in the pool, hoping that she will swim; the sort that makes one get her a car, later in life, after enough practice at the simulator, and cross one's fingers as she attempts to transfer her skills from the lab to the battlefield.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

first aid kit

The hour draws near!

know the future is scary at times, sweetheart. But there's just no escaping it.

You had to be careful whenever you entered a new zone or sector. You had to be prepared. But like I said, I didn't have that problem. I was stuck at school.

Halliday had prepared a short video message, along with instructions that it be released to the world media at the time of his death.

All things are ready, if our minds be so' Ã¢â'¬Â I heard Whoadie whisper over the comm.

No sensible man watches his feet hit the ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next.

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.

We had two tins of Virol, which we were keeping for an emergency; but, finding ourselves in need of an oil-lamp to eke out our supply of candles, we emptied one of the tins in the manner that most appealed to us, and fitted it with a wick made by shredding a bit of canvas. When

We must take time to weep for our fallen compañeros while we sharpen our machetes

One should be guided less by catastrophes than by one's own internal weather conditions. Even when there was no wind, a hidden cliff could spell disaster; and one could quietly while away time in a cabin in the center of a typhoon.

Le bestie sanno il tempo in tempo, quando serve saperlo. Pensarci prima è rovina di uomini e non prepara alla prontezza.

if you're dealing with monkeys, you got to expect some wrenches.....

it is nevertheless worth noticing that there is a future to which we may look ahead. But whether we look or not, it will come, it will come!

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

The first time you attempt a retrospective that goes beyond asking "What went well?" and "What should we do differently?" it will take time to prepare.

Group dynamics include team member interactions and emotions. You aren't responsible for other people's emotions, but as retrospective leader, you are responsible for keeping the session productive. And that means you need to be prepared to handle emotional interactions and situations.