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

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

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

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

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

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

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

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

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.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

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

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.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

I’m not a futurist.

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.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Begin with the end in mind.

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

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

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it’s ready.

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

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

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

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

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.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

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.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.