Quotes About Preparation

Before finding the one you have to find your furtre

But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds.

Lots of famous people are late bloomers. My father says it's an advantage to be a late bloomer. Because when good things start happening, you're ready for it.

Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.

Lessons: Diversity = resilience. Abundance = resilience. to survive catastrophe, you need a surplus, a reservoir, money under the mattress, food in the fridge. If you're already starving, you won't survive a famine. Take the world down to the bone and the only thing that flourishes are boneyards; the only thing that expands is collapse.

The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it.

This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits us to gain, without any particular future application in mind, a holistic understanding of the world, which is both a complement of and a preparation for later analytical activities.

Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing. Combine contradictory observations. Allow yourself enough time.

We are not always properly equipped to face the difficulties life places in our path.

The best defense was your own, and you should never rely on chance or other people.

Better to see the dangers in the world and be ready when someone inevitably turns on you. It is a far preferable surprise to find that a person is kinder than you think, than to discover he is secretly a traitor.

I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.

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It was always a good idea to bring food when going to see Zedd.

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

Are we entirely ready, sir? said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means We are not entirely ready, sir. We had better be. Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words of General Tacticus, 'let us take history by the scrotum.' Of course, he was not a very honourable fighter.

A bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits.

That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

The only way to get something to turn up when you need it is to need it to turn up.

D'yer see it? This finger, laddie, could send ye to meet yer Maker!" Sgt. Deisenburger stared at the black and purple nail a few inches from his face. As an offensive weapon it rated quite highly, especially if it was ever used in the preparation of food.

There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.