Quotes About Preparation

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage and perform in a play for which she is not appropriately dressed, and for which she has not adequately rehearsed.

A good rule of thumb is: Pack twice as many books as changes of underwear.

If you were to write a script for the tape to be played for the mourners at your funeral, how would you like it to read? That's your Primary Aim. And once you've created the script, all you need to do is make it come true. All

You must be able to forecast the Flow. You must have a Flow Plan that helps you gain a clear vision of what's out there next month and the month after that.

Your job is to commit to the process of becoming an entrepreneur and then to practice what entrepreneurs do so that entrepreneurship can find you when you've practiced enough to be ready.

Simply put, your job is to prepare yourself and your business for growth. "To educate yourself sufficiently so that, as your business grows, the business's foundation and structure can carry the additional weight.

Hay que contar siempre con lo peor, y luego hay que hacer contra ello todo lo que se pueda.

From On Combat (2004) 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.

Solid preparation can reduce the stress of any situation. Therefore, the integration of a mental toughness psychological skills component with military and police skills training in all areas can enhance missions and reduce response stress. With this comes the possibility of reducing post-traumatic stress. Evidence for this has been found in parallel critical incident stress reactions among police officers.

If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Why would I think about missing a shot that I haven't taken yet?

Why would I think about missing a shot I haven't taken yet?

It is the innovation that never occurs, and the knowledge that is never created, because you have ceased to lay the groundwork for it. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.

You cannot wait for the smoke to clear: once you can see things clearly it is already too late. You can't outrun an epidemic: by the time you start to run it is already upon you. Identify what is important and drop everything that is not. Figure out the equivalent of an escape fire.

the knowledge that is never created, because you have ceased to lay the groundwork for it.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

Michael Lewis

People only care about data when the shit hits the fan. 'Oh my God, what's going on??? We need data!

What could go wrong?

It's sort of like the flood's about to happen and you're Noah. You're on the ark. Yeah, you're okay. But you are not happy looking out at the flood. That's not a happy moment for Noah.

Spivey was a worrier. He thought that when a person took risks, the thing that went wrong was usually a thing the person hadn't thought about, and so he tried to think about the things he wouldn't naturally think about.

One day, she told us, you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.

Image the whole, then execute the parts— Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz Ere mortar dab brick!