Quotes About Preparation

There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equipped with more than the least that it needs to fight its enemy. War is expensive. It costs money and it costs lives and no civilization has an infinite amount of either. So when you fight, you conserve. You use and equip only as much as you have to, never more.

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder." "Spoken like a true Boy Scout," Harry said. "A Boy Scout wouldn't need to pee as much as I do," I said. "Sure he would," Harry said. "Just give him sixty years.

Adam's mother ran the farm, bore Adam, and still had time to embrace a primitive theosophy. She felt that her husband would surely be killed by the wild and barbarous rebels, and she prepared herself to get in touch with him in what she called the beyond.

In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen.

She bought all new underwear. She had a horror of being found dead with mended or, worse, unmended underclothes.

Well, she thought, here it is just as I knew it would be. Here was her death. Her mind flashed to see if she had forgotten anything—will made, letters burned, new underwear, plenty of food in the house for dinner. She wondered whether she had turned out the light in the back room. It was all in a second. Then she thought there might be an outside chance of survival.

We will have to see whether the practicing through the years has prepared me for the writing of a book. For this is the book I have always wanted and have worked and prayed to be able to write. We shall see whether I am capable. Surely I feel humble in the face of this work. And as our Roman friends would say when casting outside themselves for help, Ora pro mihi. February

Când te preg?teÈ™ti mult timp pentru o c?l?torie cred c? nutreÈ™ti gândul intim c? nu se va realiza.

In 1963 Steinbeck told Caskie Stinnett: I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it. I take a hell of a long time to get started. The actual writing is the last process. Though Steinbeck actually wrote the novel in ninety-three sittings, it was his way of saying that The Grapes of Wrath was an intuited whole that embodied the form of his devotion. p xxxviii

Ruhlar?nda yumru yumru gazap üzümleri oluÅŸuyor,büyüyor,a??rla??yor,baÄŸbozumuna haz?rlan?yor

There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare.

When opportunity knocks, it's too late to prepare.

I wanted to win every single game I ever played in or coached. Absolutely. I wanted to win. But, I understood that ultimately the winning or losing may not be under my control. What was under my control was how I prepared myself and our team. I judged my success, my "winning," on that. It just made more sense.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

It's so easy to relax, to cut corners, to let down after you've reached your goal, and begin thinking you can just "turn it on" automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there.

If any one premise typifies my teams in all the years I've coached, it is this concept. Often as a player, I'd tell myself, I may play someone better than I am, but I'll never run against one who is going to be in better condition And I never played against a man in my life I felt was in better shape, and Lambert often cited me as an example of top conditioning.

Seven Things to Do." It read as follows: 1. Be true to yourself. 2. Help others. 3. Make each day your masterpiece. 4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible. 5. Make friendship a fine art. 6. Build a shelter against a rainy day. 7. Pray for guidance and count and give thanks for your blessings every day.

The past cannot change what is to come. The work that you do each and every day is the only true way to improve and prepare yourself for what is to come. You cannot change the past, but you can influence the future by what you do today." —

If you prepare properly, you may be outscored but you will never lose.

If you don´t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

I never dreamed about winning a national championship. What I was dreaming about was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be. My thoughts were directed toward preparation, our journey, not the results of the effort. That would simply have shifted my attention to the wrong area, hoping for something out of my control.

Be quick - but don't hurry.

Remember That a Great Quarter in Basketball or Business Starts with a Great Minute.