If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

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.

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

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

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.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Service of any type requires preparation.

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

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

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

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

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

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

The future is purchased by the present.

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.

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.

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

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

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.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

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

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

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

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.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

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.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

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

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

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.