Quotes About Preparation

Once in my room I had to stop every loophole, to close the shutters, to dig my own grave as I turned down the bed-clothes, to wrap myself in the shroud of my nightshirt.

La vida entera transcurre en la cocina

There was nothing on my calendar to indicate that this would be anything other than a short-skirt day. No need for a "believe me" suit.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

we train for war and fight to win.

One day I'm not gonna be here. Then it's gonna be you two, by yourselves, and I want you to understand how rough and unfair this world is. I want you both prepared for whatever the hell might come your way.

I had eight magazines of 5.56mm bullets and ChemLights. As team lead, I carried flares, an extra radio, and an extra antenna stuffed in a cargo pocket. I had a computer and a medical pack containing QuikClot, bandages, needles, and tourniquets. I had water and food, too. I weighed about 250 pounds without my gear, and more than 325 with it. With every step I took, I could feel my spine compressing like a shock absorber.

colleagues we were indeed fit and qualified enough to attempt BUD/S training.

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum — Flavius Vegetius Renatus, fourth century).

Aedificare diu cogitare oportet. Conserere cogitare non oportet, sed facere oportet. [Building requires long thought: planting requires not thought but action.]

Siquid desit in annum, uti paretur: quae supersint, ut veneant: quae opus sint locato, locentur: quae opera fieri velit et quae locari velit, uti imperet et ea scripta relinquat... Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet.

He took out the sidearm. Thumbed the magazine release. A full load, hollow-points. Body armor would stop them, but if they hit flesh, they'd shred on impact, tiny razors spinning inside fragile tissue. Two spare magazines, though why he would need that many rounds he couldn't imagine.

Before beginning, prepare carefully

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.

For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world." "And that, my lord?" "Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

I'm going to buy a box tomorrow.

those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.

Nothing at all, but I'm not sure I'm ready for it. I'd hate to get used to something I'm not ready for.