Top 100 Quotes About Being Prepared
#1. The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
Cam Newton
#2. I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.
Sandra Bullock
#3. When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.
Shunryu Suzuki
#4. Whatever may happen to you, it was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being, and of that which is incident to it.
Marcus Aurelius
#5. I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and overseas, and just everything in life. That is what prepared me for coming into the NBA, being undersized, no recognition, not getting anything easy, and I have been fortunate to prosper in this league.
Udonis Haslem
#7. When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
Mayim Bialik
#8. [He] mumbled something about how being a Hungarian meant wanting nothing and being prepared for anything. Or was it the other way around.
Jessica Anthony
#9. If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.
Chuck Barris
#10. We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
John Ruskin
#11. The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with compassion," and being now prepared to reach down and help us, he is forbidden because we won't let him. We look down instead of up.
Truman G. Madsen
#12. I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.
Joe Lieberman
#13. You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.
Napoleon Hill
#14. There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that.
M.M. Kaye
#15. The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
Moliere
#16. There are solutions that are proper, but they require the painstaking and difficult work of building alliances and also being prepared to analyze the problem realistically. And exactly the same thing is going on my side of the Atlantic as is going on your side of the Atlantic.
Tony Blair
#17. In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
Helen Clark
#18. Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
Cara Buono
#19. I had not been prepared for my employer's approach to vehicular navigation, which was a simple case of being unable to tell the difference between a very large, multi-windowed van that could accommodate a mobile disco and a Formula One racer.
Michael Gurnow
#20. I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.
Judith Jamison
#21. Peter of Jerusalem told his followers that they should be prepared to give an account (logos) of the hope that is in them (I Pt 3: 15). The logos that Peter referred to is, in the final instance, a Person, the eternal Word of God, the ultimate explanation of our life, our movement, and our being.
Francis George
#22. I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.
Donna Shalala
#23. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!
Hillary Scott
#24. Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.
Leon Krier
#25. Keep doing the right things in life. Keep your faith and joy during tough times. Difficulty means you are being prepared for takeoff on the runways of life ahead of you!
Timothy Pina
#26. We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.
Paul Simonon
#27. Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.
R. K. Milholland
#28. If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.
Richard Dawkins
#29. There's a quote that says, 'If you know yourself and you know your opponent, you shouldn't fear the results of 100 battles.' Just really being prepared gives you a lot of confidence.
Jon Jones
#30. Not being well-prepared will lead to certain defeat! These people need to hear certain things for you to convince them to vote for you.
Brad McKinniss
#31. Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing...
Charles Dickens
#32. It's hard [arriving just before the game], but it's more mental than anything. I think I prepared myself as I was coming over mentally, to not think about being fatigued or anything, just to be ready to help the team.
Cappie Pondexter
#33. Being told that something was going to happen never prepared you for the actuality of the event itself.
Robert Storey
#34. Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is a holy Being. The angels are holy creatures. Holiness is written on everything in heaven ... How shall we ever be at home and happy in heaven if we die unholy?
J.C. Ryle
#35. Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.
Mae Jemison
#36. I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
Gavin Hood
#37. I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.
Erik Larson
#38. Readiness is a type of choice, being prepared and accepting of things to come...
Sara Raasch
#39. Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
A.C. Grayling
#40. I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.
Joe Bastianich
#41. We're never prepared for how much we love our children, for how much we wish we could protect them by being perfect.
Libba Bray
#42. I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#43. Being a Christian does not exempt us from tough training, which may mean suffering. If the training were easy, we would not be prepared for the tough days ahead.
Billy Graham
#44. What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.
Gregory David Roberts
#45. A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.
Donald Faison
#46. Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
Stephen Covey
#47. To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
Pearl S. Buck
#48. Sure, there are times when the guys talk about playing football in school and I can't relate to that, but I can relate to being a female athlete. And as long as you are prepared, work hard and know your stuff, you will be fine.
Megan Alexander
#49. In order to survive in a world of instinct,
its' alternative is to hunt or being hunted.
Reject this, then be prepared to be hunted.
Toba Beta
#50. We are not defined by our past but are rather being prepared by our past.
Rick Martinez
#51. We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Dwight L. Moody
#52. Toleration means being prepared to accept opinions that you intensely dislike. Likewise democracy means consenting to be governed by people whom you intensely dislike. This
Roger Scruton
#53. Is the economy going to collapse if we continue down this road? Yes. Should Americans be self-reliant? Yes. Absolutely ... I think loving our neighbors is being prepared to give them food. Loving our neighbors is being prepared to protect them.
Matt Shea
#54. Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#55. The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Edsger Dijkstra
#56. There were days on that show where I had to go in and record a song, then I had to rehearse the dance for that song, and then I had to go and shoot a separate scene. That would be one day. So yeah, it was about the value of time and being prepared, and not to freak out.
Blake Jenner
#57. Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they came to the studio to give everything they had.
Stanley Clarke
#58. I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.
Eva Hart
#59. Never give up. Never stop being creative in finding ways to get exposure. Also, prepared anytime and all the time. You never know who you will run into.
Christina Milian
#60. Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
Miguel De Cervantes
#61. I have to hold that up as a metaphor for everything, being prepared and then being brave enough to just be there. Just listen and follow, maybe jump. Everyone leans in, it brings them into your emotional vicinity because, you said "Risk creates intimacy
Mary-Louise Parker
#62. From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue.
Sun Tzu
#63. Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.
Keeth Smart
#64. Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
Bryn Terfel
#65. Basketball Rule #7
Rebounding
is the art
of anticipating,
of always being prepared
to grab it.
But you can't
drop the ball.
Kwame Alexander
#66. Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past.
Nick Trout
#67. Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.
Jeff Smith
#68. I never really thought about being a role model. I started really young, so at 10 years old, I was still very much the person who needed role models. I wasn't really prepared to be one, but it's always something that I've taken very seriously.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#69. In some African tribes, this would make us married," a dry male voice returned. Angel looked up. His arms reflexively gripping her waist, a tall, lean man with windswept black hair looked down at her with amused emerald eyes. "In others, it would mean we're being prepared for supper
Suzanne Enoch
#70. Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.
Paul Arden
#71. You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.
Iyanla Vanzant
#72. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.
Saul Leiter
#73. Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!
Charles Spurgeon
#74. The demand to be prepared for all future actions and all situations is the cause of our problems. Every situation is so different; and our attempt to be prepared for all those situations is the one that is responsible for our not being able to deal with situations as they arise.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#75. I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.
Norman Lamm
#76. That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!
Terry Pratchett
#77. If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.
Bryant McGill
#78. The only thing I wasn't prepared for was being everywhere all at the same time.
Justin Timberlake
#79. One should plan for spiritual enlightenment. At least bring a flashlight.
Lia Hills
#80. In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.
Hank Aaron
#81. You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, 'That's not your story.'
Lynn Coady
#82. American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.
Sydney J. Harris
#83. Being in love is a complicated matter; although anyone who is prepared to pretend that love is a simple, straightforward business is always in a strong position for making conquests.
Anthony Powell
#84. If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.
Michael Bloomberg
#85. He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#86. A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster, so it's important to have an out-of-town contact with whom the entire family can check in.
Mike Crapo
#87. I'm not prepared to sacrifice my being engaged in the world for just any relationship.
Loreena McKennitt
#88. Our duty as Latter-day Saints is to prepare ourselves, this earth, and its inhabitants for the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Being prepared and being strong as the gospel teaches ensure happiness here and hereafter and make this 'grand millennial mission' possible.
Keith B. McMullin
#89. If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.
Peter Singer
#90. The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.
Georges St-Pierre
#91. The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.
Jesse Eisenberg
#92. What has prepared Heather for her life in the Burrow?
Sleep, being hit over the head once in sixth grade and losing consciousness for a minute, waking up to find out someone had pushed her off the swings.
A life made of air
Jim Krusoe
#93. Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable
Jason Kidd
#94. The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.
Walter Brueggemann
#95. People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.
Gunnar Myrdal
#96. Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Michael Korda
#97. We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.
Jo Brand
#98. Norwegian racism is always a kind of racism that is not prepared to accept it being qualified as such. Because we're the good guys, and racism is what bad people do.
Michael Booth
#99. You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.
Twyla Tharp
#100. I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.
Pat Metheny
