Quotes About Preparation

Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.

Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

You're about to walk on stage and play together for the next few hours so you want to feel connected and make sure that everyone is in the same head space; a good head space.

I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys.

I take as much time as I need. I want to be fresh and smelling good.

I'm pretty superstitious, I want to do everything right, get my routine right, and I wait for waves. I kinda try to sense the ocean coming together for me.

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.