Quotes About Preparation

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Don't build a bridge into thin air.

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

planning the wedding. "We'll

Jesus," my father mumbled whenever he opened the refrigerator and found health-food peanut butter, brown salt-free bread, and a jar of thriving alfalfa seeds, "the world could end tomorrow and we'd have eaten a last meal of this stuff.

Chapter breaks are not so readers have a place to stop reading; they're the breath to take before the roller coaster plummets down the hill

Solitude encourages reflection and productivity, if you're prepared for it.

Como hacer vendas para un soldado que todavía no ha sido herido y sentir eso de grato, que se lo está aliviando desde antes, previsoramente.

A veces una es tan descuidada —dijo tímidamente Clara—. Cree que lleva todo, y siempre olvida algo.

Y tú ahí de espaldas, de pronto más sabio y más triste que ellos, de qué te habrá servido tanta previsión si al final estás danzando esta misma música insensata.

Solamente vendrá lo que tienes preparado y resuelto, el triste reflejo de tu esperanza

Parto del principio de que la reflexión debe preceder a la acción

Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all other action.

Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all action.

Concessions made today mean condemning ourselves to being completely overwhelmed tomorrow. We therefore insist on intransigence of the idea, and a readiness to advance with pure forces, when the right moment arrives. -Julius Evola, Orientations: Eleven Points

Stop building tomorrow's roads on today's grounds.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

Homegirl was 'bout about it. Knew that when Gondolin falls you don't wait around for the balrogs to tap on your door. You make fucking moves. And make moves she did. Papers were assembled, palms were greased, and permissions secured.

We can choice to cower at the river's edge, watching as life sails past us, always the bystander, never the participant. We can shade our eyes and fret about all the untold dangers below the surface. We can play and replay all the warnings we've ever heard. Or. Or we can equip ourselves with what we need to survive

Expect the best, but prepare for the worst.' I'm good at the first part, crap at the second.

When the average person goes to an apple orchard, he will usually pay attention only to the fruit. If he goes to a nursery, he will notice only the beauty and fragrance of the flowers. Few people consider that the fruit and flowers are only the result of a great deal of planning, preparation, and hard work. In the same way, when most people see another person's success, few will stop to think about how that person could be so successful.

By the nature of their discipline, mathematicians invariably do their best intuitive work in their twenties or early thirties—whereas historians and other social scientists often need years of studious preparation before they became capable of genuinely creative work.

The reason why a bad philosophy leads to such hell is that it is what you think and want and treasure and foster in times of preparation that determine what you do in the pinch, and that it takes an error to father a sin.