Quotes About Preparedness

Wisdom is the warrior's greatest weapon. When you have wisdom, you are never unarmed, you are never defenseless, and you are never powerless. You need skill to know how to shoot an arrow straight, but only wisdom can teach you how to never need to shoot it. Wisdom is not the result of having learned enough; it comes when you know there is never enough learning.

It isn't always the fittest who survive, but the people who have the information, those who clock the exits. I could find in relentless occupation what I could never find in helplessness: a way through.

Don't worry. I'm always careful. What could possibly go wrong?" Chapter XVIII – Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong

Sword can always be drawn again, faster than you imagine.

The special army, skipper, isn't just any old unit. It's not some shitty shield-bearers who just need to be shown which end of the javelin pricks. A special army has to know how to fight like nobody's business!

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.

Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which will last for at least a year wherever it is legally permissible to do so.

Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

I felt completely ready to become prime minister. I came to office better equipped, in terms of knowledge of economics and of the Australian economy, than anyone before me, or since, I would say.

I always have Band-Aids, ideally ones with princesses on them, because they're the best.

We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

I live in dread that I might find myself in some sort of emergency, and everyone will turn to me and expect me to know what the correct procedures are.

Women, whatever their profession, tend to have a harder time feeling ready for a job, even though in most cases they are more than prepared.

It's not nice, not playing, but you have to try and be ready and try to help the team in different ways.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

I know how to use a tourniquet, a bandage, I know how to stitch, how to do CPR and a lot of technical bits too.

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

I make sure that I'm 100 percent ready to go before I put that tee into the ground.

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

Old guns are better than no guns.