Preparation Quotes - Page 8

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.

We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.

Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.

To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is. [...] Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.