Quotes About Preparation

This old world will soon break into pieces! Don't you hear the tremblings of it?

We could have done it at our studios in England, but the movie would have then started off looking artificial," says Kershner. "We decided to go for reality. Unfortunately, it was Norway's coldest winter in 100 years. That's why you prepare for a film as if you were a prizefighter—I ran two miles a day for months before it, because I knew what to expect.

Si todo parece ir según el plan, intenta encontrar algo que hayas pasado por alto y que podría mandarlo todo al garete».

This weapon I am giving you is a tool, an emergency tool. It is not to be depended upon as a first resort, or a second, or even a third. Your greatest assets will always be your mind and your ability to act on wise decisions. Fail to make proper use of those assets, and the weapon cannot save you. Remember that, Mari.

If something really bad is going to happen, I want it to be while I'm trying to get something important done, not while I'm running.

Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what's out of your control.

Es posible que las cosas lleguen a darse para quienes esperan, pero sólo serán aquellas cosas que hayan dejado quienes las ponen por obra. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

delivering a speech or presentation is like cooking a meal; as long as the chef is good the cuisine doesn't matter.

luck was the residue of preparation.

Reece smiled, remembering an old commanding officer who preached that luck was the residue of preparation.

What's past is prologue. Written by William Shakespeare in The Tempest, it is also inscribed on a monument outside of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. How true that is.

Good. What do you need to pull it off?" "Take a breath, look around, make a call," Reece muttered.

Reece thought of one of Ox's favorite sayings: "If you get in a helicopter and it's not leaking, get ready to crash because that means it's out of hydraulic fluid.

Good. Remember. No one is coming. It's up to us. Take your positions.

again. After their "rolling" session, Reece and Freddy ran a few laps around the inside wall of the compound before getting into their morning workout. Like most of the special operations community, their

The Teams had a saying: "Don't rush to your death." There was hardly ever a good reason to go barging into a target at full speed without carefully assessing the situation.

What lay ahead in the blackness? One man? Two? A squad of heavily armed terrorists? Had they already mixed the binary components of the Novichok? Were thousands of Ukrainians already dead and dying from the deadly compound? Reece pressed on.

Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you.

Build your foundation, Reece, he remembered his friend and one of the best archers on the planet telling him years earlier. Winning starts from the ground up.

Luck is the residue of preparation,

The pistol is just to fight your way to the rifle. Then get to work.

Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

Growth stationery from "X. Drew Butler," advising the mayor of Airway Heights to prepare for major expansion