Quotes About Preparation

she hadn't accounted for.

She lightly punched him in the arm. "So, on to Williamsburg?" "On to Williamsburg. But I need to call them first.

The real way to win a football game comes before you step on the field.

saw it coming. See, they built me too good. They didn't figure in

El éxito o fracaso dependían en gran medida de la preparación. Con una buena preparación, lo único que se requería hacer era ejecutar. Incluso podían realizarse cambios en el ultimo momento si la planificación lo requería." ? David Baldacci , MÁXIMO IMPACTO (The Hit)

side. Diaz the right. They were prepared for a war. They did not find one. They did not find anyone at all. The warehouse was empty. The makeshift prison cells held no one. They searched the space in ten minutes and then regrouped in the center of it. Puller said, "They move fast, I'll give them that." "But where have they gone?" asked Carson. "We can get APBs out. They have to be using trucks

But the more intelligence you had beforehand, the better the eventual fight would go.

Tomorrow belongs to those who hear it coming.

Bob Rubin's book In an Uncertain World. Rubin had argued that many outcomes are possible in a given situation, and you have to anticipate and prepare for eventualities that seem unlikely but that could prove extremely damaging should they materialize

While reading a book about the construction of the Panama Canal, I came across an anecdote about the project's chief engineer, whose math teacher used to say, "If you have five minutes to solve a problem, use the first three to figure out how you're going to do it.

Not only did I spend time in advance of meetings generating some key questions for teams

You have to know exactly what you're doing before you decide to use guns.

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

In life, the microphone passes your lips but once... you had better be ready to sing.

Castor beans' seed hulls must be removed by soaking 1-4 oz. of the beans in 12-36 oz. of distilled water with 4-6 tablespoons of NaOH or 6-8 ts. of commercial lye (the beans' natural buoyancy requiring here that they be weighted down with marbles, sterilized gravel, or low-value coins combined and tied in an ordinary Trojan condom).

All this is just sort of warming up; the whole thing won't be like this.

Advance organizers are brief chunks of information—spoken, written, or illustrated—presented prior to new material to help facilitate learning and understanding.

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

if these hours be dark, as indeed in many ways they are, at least do not let us sit deedless, like fools and fine gentlemen, thinking the common toil not good enough for us, and beaten by the muddle; but rather let us work like good fellows trying by some dim candle-light to set our workshop ready against to-morrow's daylight...

What's past is prologue.

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.