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
#3. When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
Mayim Bialik
#4. [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
#5. 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
#6. You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.
Napoleon Hill
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.
Judith Jamison
#11. 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
#12. Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.
R. K. Milholland
#13. 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
#14. Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing...
Charles Dickens
#15. Readiness is a type of choice, being prepared and accepting of things to come...
Sara Raasch
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
Pearl S. Buck
#19. We are not defined by our past but are rather being prepared by our past.
Rick Martinez
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
Miguel De Cervantes
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.
Iyanla Vanzant
#30. 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
#31. If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.
Bryant McGill
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.
Georges St-Pierre
#39. Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable
Jason Kidd
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.
Kenneth Oppel
#43. Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
Kelly Rowland
#44. People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change.
Paul Smith
#45. You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.
Jon Favreau
#46. He had never been a Boy Scout, but believed in being prepared.
Stephen King
#47. Every day, in some way, we're all being prepared for something better.
Cheryl Richardson
#48. 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.
Carl Lewis
#49. We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.
Rebecca Solnit
#50. For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are being prepared, not preparing the Kingdom; that is to say, the Kingdom merits the sons, not the songs the Kingdom. So all hell merits and prepares its children rather than they it.
Martin Luther
#51. Leadership is not just about giving orders. It's about being prepared to put your body and soul on the line to protect those who look to you for command. Any leader who won't isn't worth the name.
Mina Carter
#52. Jenny felt that her education was merely a polite way to bide time, as if she were really a cow, being prepared only for the insertion of the device for artificial insemination. Her
John Irving
#53. What if opportunity comes and you aren't prepared? If you don't prepare yourself for opportunity, one thing is certain, you won't win even when you get the chance. You must recognize the power of being prepared.
Marshall Sylver
#54. I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.
George S. Patton
#55. Players have an in-season playing weight, and we have to be careful not to stray too far from it when we're not under the watchful eye of the nutritionist. This can be a problem when the food isn't being prepared and regulated by our cooking staff.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#56. Open mindedness is not blank mindedness, open mindedness is being prepared to change your view when presented with a better set of proofs and arguments.
Stephen Breyer
#57. I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.
Paul Schneider
#58. Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected...
Immanuel Kant
#59. My grandma always said, "Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!" If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.
Iyanla Vanzant
#60. You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.
Mark Udall
#62. We don't have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf ... I'm a little bit too casual probably about a lot of things, but you can't force good play. Good play comes from good hard work and actually being prepared to play, not being forced to play.
Jack Nicklaus
#63. Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.
Robert Kiyosaki
#64. Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected
Pen
#65. Being prepared helps you feel more confident at the doctor's office. Think about what you want to ask and write those questions down.
Andie MacDowell
#66. But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites.
Junius Williams
#68. I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.
Alber Elbaz
#69. Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.
Charlie Munger
#70. Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
Eduard Shevardnadze
#71. Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.
Alexa Von Tobel
#72. That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now.
Anthony Michael Hall
#73. Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.
Christopher Moore
#74. If you have suffered more than your fair share of difficulties in life, perhaps you are being prepared to serve some greater purpose that will require you to be equipped with the wisdom you have acquired through your trials.
Robin S. Sharma
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
Cara Buono
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Being told that something was going to happen never prepared you for the actuality of the event itself.
Robert Storey
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
