Quotes About Preparation

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.

Truth be told, are you ready to defend yourself?

Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.

The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.

It was a good strategy but this is where I intended to turn her plans upside-down. In the courtroom there are three things for the lawyer to always consider: the knowns, the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns. Whether at the prosecution or defense table, it is the lawyer's job to master the first two and always be prepared for the third.

Donovan stared at the car silently, contemplating it the way a matador looks at the bull he is going to fight.

anticipated doing, anyway. But for now he was

They'll both know somebody's out there, coming for them.

coming at the interview from a

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

Over the radio, Eddie was saying, "I'm telling you, we should have tested first, Doc. Should have done it by the book. You don't come to a place with poisonous chickens if you're not sure your vehicles will hold up.

Story of our species, Malcom said, laughing. Everybody knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere was relentlessly adversarial.