Quotes about PREPARATION
"The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa."
— Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
"It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."
— Paul "Bear" Bryant
"The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare."
— Thane Yost
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
— Stephen King
"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
— Paul Coffey NHL star
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete, or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't."
— Bruce Jenner
"By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail."
— Benjamin Fanklin
"Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results."
— Larry Bossidy
"Explosions are not comfortable."
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
"Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want."
— Brian Tracy
"Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it."
— Louis L'Amour Bendigo Shafter
"If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."
— Michelangelo
"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult."
— E. B. White
"All things are ready, if our minds be so."
— William Shakespeare
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
— John F. Kennedy
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."
— Abraham Lincoln
"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put this plan into action."
— Napolean Hill
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
— Seneca
"If I miss a day of practice, I know it. If I miss two days, my manager knows it. If I miss three days, my audience knows it."
— André Previn
“We try too hard to know the exact future and do too little to be ready for its many possibilities.”
— Bina Venkataraman, The Optimist’s Telescope
“One lesson I’ve learned is that if the job I do were easy, I wouldn’t derive so much satisfaction from it. The thrill of winning is in direct proportion to the effort I put in before. I also know, from long experience, that if you make an effort in training when you don’t especially feel like making it, the payoff is that you will win games when you are not feeling your best. That is how you win championships, that is what separates the great player from the merely good player. The difference lies in how well you’ve prepared.
“Rafael Nadal, Rafa: My Story
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
— Winston Churchill
“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
— Alexander Hamilton
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