Quotes About Preparation

A smart rabbit doesn't wait until the hounds are on her tail before she digs her burrow.

The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I'll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that's not accurate. Everything's there so I won't be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

THE ELEVATOR TEST Know your solution (or your product or business) so thoroughly that you can explain it clearly and precisely to your client (or customer or investor) in 30 seconds. If you can do that, then you understand what you're doing well enough to sell your solution.

So understood, the art of archery is rather like a preparatory school for Zen, for it enables the beginner to gain a clearer view, through the works of his own hands, of events which are not in themselves intelligible.

We all know that the big explosion is going to happen. Your concern, the two of you, is to make sure that you die intellectually correct. But my problem is more primitive. I only want to make sure that when it comes and my boys are dying that I am there to ease their last pain with morphine.

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

And where was the support for that kind of preparation? There are all kinds of medicines and medical devices and clinics and even hospice care to prolong life and make it as easeful as possible—but who helps you to really prepare for it, philosophically? Who teaches you how to embrace it? Is there anyone out there who really does that?

Not infrequently over the course of our marriage we'd talked about how each of us—or anyone, for that matter—needed to develop the inner strength necessary to face his or her own death. Not to pay lip service to the concept but really attempt to work at it. People neglected to do so at their peril.

It was pointless to worry about problems I didn't yet have.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I am released.

As a player that has played this game, I know, at the end of the day I've had numerous amount of surgeries, and the doctors released me at numerous amount of times to go and play. But a lot of those times didn't mean go and play against the best in the world right now, but to get yourself ready to compete again.

I spent a lot of time preparing for releasing music and then not a lot of time releasing music.

Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully.

You prepare each week to win, and for it to finally pay off, it is a big relief.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.

For most athletes, there's a focus on your own fitness, but I have to rely on my horse, too. I've been very lucky so far, and it hasn't presented a problem, but you can never count on a competition going as planned until you're there and actually doing it.

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

I rely upon the directors to fill me in before a shot.