I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Education is the best provision for old age.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.