Quotes About Preparation

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. 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. And that's good enough. He's going to be a billionaire.

I'll just tell you," Mattis said, "the country I would most be willing to fight would be one whose entire officer corps had never heard a shot fired at them. War is so different from training that a shock wave will go through them. I've got—probably 80 percent of my officers have been shot at in one form or another. But I'd prefer not to put them through another war.

If we don't win in 2022, we're screwed.

The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

This was a time to prepare for the cold weather, to store up fire and wood. But in those days of the triumph of materialism, matter had become a disembodied idea, and the problems of alimentation and fuel supply took the place of food and firewood.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breath-takingly serious!

Pulling back the slide and cocking the gun

The only people who might hope to survive were those who had exercised some degree of caution and had prepared in advance.

None of the sheep ever wanted a sheepdog around until one of them spotted a wolf. By then, it was often too late.

Do not fear failure. Do more than is required of you. Make your plans fit the circumstances. There is only one type of discipline—perfect discipline.

He removed the 9mm Heckler & Koch USP SD Herman had given him and spun a GEMTECH suppressor onto its threaded barrel. It was loaded with subsonic ammunition and he carried two extra magazines. If bullets started flying, though, that meant something had gone very wrong.

A believable falsehood must always be in place before conducting a clandestine operation.

I have been most industriously talking up your extraordinary powers to all my wide acquaintance,' continued Mr Drawlight. 'I have been your John the Baptist, sir, preparing the way for you!

Nothing, I believe, inspires a man with such eagerness to begin his day's work as the sight of his instruments neatly laid out

Two days ago I gathered together supplies for the journey: food, blankets, a small saucepan in which to heat water and some rags.

Before you write one shot, one word of dialogue on paper, you must know four things: your ending, your beginning, Plot Point I, and Plot Point II.

The thing about nightmares is that you can't prepare for them. They sneak up on you when you are most vulnerable, wreaking havoc and mayhem when you are totally defenseless. And they don't always happen while you're sleeping

See each scene deep, love it like a complex faceted jewel. Get the light, shadow & vivid color. Set scene the night before. Sleep on it, write it in the morning.

It's not enough to be in right place at right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.

Tienes que ser la persona adecuada en el lugar adecuado en el momento justo».