Quotes About Preparation

When you're onstage, part of you wants to be off as fast as possible. And once you're offstage, everything is in anticipation of the next time you're on.

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

Somewhere else in the world, someone is practicing while you're not, and when you meet him, he'll beat you.

Ultimul lucru pe care-l afl?m când alc?tuim o lucrare este cu ce ar fi trebuit s? începem.

Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future. We scarcely ever think of the present; and if we think of it, it is only to take light from it to arrange the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means; the future alone is our end. [78] So we never live, but we hope to live; and, as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable we should never be so.

The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.

The future alone is our end. So we never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Just as important, thinking about an exit plan will force you to ask important, difficult questions about yourself.

But I'll know my song well before I start singin

Having the will to win is not enough. Everyone has that. What matters is having the will to prepare to win.

That's the true mark of a champion—forgetting the last victory and preparing for the next one. And that one comment should be on every coach's wall: The first job that we have today is putting yesterday aside to be remembered later. (Tony LaRussa, World Series Champion 2011)

Before you can inspire your players to "win," you have to show them how not to lose.

presuming, you've thoroughly thought out and researched

A team box was tied down in the center holding everything from climbing ropes to arctic clothing to chemical/biological protection suits, parachutes, dry suits, spare radio batteries, two million in gold coins for barter, etc., etc.; someone with an extremely paranoid and inventive mind had packed it. Aka Nada.

Confident people are prepared people.

contingencies

No matter how much we plan, how well trained and prepared we are, there is always an element of chaos.

Bannon recalled, "that this is the real deal. This is a guy totally unprepared. Hillary Clinton spent her entire adult life getting ready for this moment. Trump hasn't spent a second getting ready for this moment.

Trump was a guy who "never went to class. Never got the syllabus.

He acted like doing too much advance preparation would diminish his skills in improvising.

He doesn't like intellectuals. Trump was a guy who "never went to class. Never got the syllabus. Never took a note. Never went to a lecture. The night before the final, he comes in at midnight from the fraternity house, puts on a pot of coffee, takes your notes, memorizes as much as he can, walks in at 8 in the morning and gets a C.

If you want to do it now," Priebus continued, "Pence is prepared to step up, and Condi Rice will come in as his VP.