Quotes About Preparedness

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.

One Thousand And One Days, or How Not to Be a Sucker

as they are hedging the possibility of their falling into the same situation some day.

The biotech company seemed to follow implicitly, though not explicitly, Louis Pasteur's adage about creating luck by sheer exposure. "Luck favors the prepared," Pasteur said, and, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities—on that, later.

With respect to Black Swans, you act to protect yourself from negative ones (or expose yourself to positive ones) even though you may have no evidence that they can take place

A wolf is trained to survive.

Wailing that the sky is falling does nothing to stop it.

Can we just get on with this already?(7).

You go to war with the army you have—not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

Bigger shows, songs on the radio, more people aware of what I'm doing... all that, I'm ready!

Just have to continue to motivate myself to be ready at any time, be ready to go no matter what. Keep my mind busy and stay locked in.

I live by the motto, 'Stay ready, so you don't have to get ready.'

never planting their land (for they could not tell when an invader might not come and take it all away

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

anyone who knew anything about military science could have seen it coming, because the tiny nation of Estonia had focused on diplomacy, not on its physical defense. Edgar Nõlvak had seen it coming, not because he was a soldier or a politician—he was a schoolteacher—but he had seen it coming because he watched television.

Confusion is the ally of the prepared

but the point of any deployment was not the movement and placement of forces, but the way the forces could be brought to bear against a potential enemy.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it ~Tom Clancy

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

There were two rooms and she took him into one of them, hoping he wouldn't mind the fact that she was not prepared; that though she could remember desire, she had forgotten how it worked; the clutch and helplessness that resided in the hands; how blindness was altered so that what leapt to the eye were places to lie down, and all else - doorknobs, straps, hooks, the sadness that crouches in corners, and the passing of time - was interference.