Be Prepared Quotes - Page 17

• There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

  Joe Zawinul

  Luck, Trying, Prepared

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• On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

  Jesse Helms

  Fighting, Thoughtful, Winning

  Jesse Helms (2005). “Here's where I Stand: A Memoir”, p.64, Jesse Helms Center

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• We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cost, Half, Pay

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• We are in a technological age. It is continuing to evolve - and fast. We should not only embrace it, but we should realize that what our skilled workforce is going to look in the future will change. We need to be training people to be prepared for it.

  Catherine Cortez Masto

  People, Training, Age

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

  Michael Howard

  Believe, Past, Law

  "Howard urges limits on 'too easy' abortions" by Gaby Hinsliff, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2005.

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• Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

  Horace

  Mad, Fixed, Method

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• Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

  Nigel Short

  Chess Game, People, Ruthless

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• Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

  Menander

  Life, Men, Preparation

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• You must buy on the way down. There is far more volume on the way down than on the way back up, and far less competition among buyers. It is almost always better to be too early than too late, but you must be prepared for price markdowns on what you buy.

  Seth Klarman

  Competition, Too Late, Way

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• The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would also require all European countries to be prepared to take refugees. And secondly: What happens when the quota has been filled? Would we then simply tell those who are threatened, sorry but we have to send you back?

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Sorry, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.

  Seth Klarman

  Reality, Swings, Unexpected

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• I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.

  Mike Pence

  Military, Humanitarian, Crisis

  "Transcript of the 2016 Debate Between the Running Mates", www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2016.

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• We know that global capitalism, and the commercially driven culture that comes with it, can be a powerful solvent, but many of us who benefit from it economically can regret the effect it has on our own lives as well as on the lives of others, and we should not view ourselves as helpless in the face of an irresistible force, especially since we may very well be complicit. We should be prepared to help others or to leave them be to sustain their cultures if we judge that they are of intrinsic value or of value to their members.

  David Wong

  Powerful, Regret, Helping Others

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In fact, our need to feel like big shots keeps us wedded to inadequate perspectives on the world, keeps us from exploring and dealing with what doesn't fit into those perspectives. We should be trying to formulate a bigger, richer perspective to accommodate what doesn't fit, but no matter how beautiful and true that new perspective looks to us, we should always be prepared to acknowledge that it doesn't accommodate something we haven't yet confronted.

  David Wong

  Beautiful, Perspective, Trying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You're taking big risks doing comedy, because ultimately, you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, you look like an idiot. You have to be prepared to look like an idiot, so you need to have confidence in the man at the helm of it all. You have to take a massive leap of faith and be daring and bold with your choices. It always makes for better work I think.

  Dominic Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• We are living in a world in which developments are harder to predict and one that has become more uncertain. In such a world, you must be prepared for the unpredictable. Nobody predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall or the Arab Spring.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Wall, Spring, Fall

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we all owe a measure of loyalty to professional norms. But when the norms seem unhelpful or unproductive, one needs to speak up - to activate voice. And in the extreme, if the profession and one's colleagues seem estranged from a thoughtfully selected course of action, you need to consider the possibility of exit. Of course, if you knowingly violate norms or laws, you need to be prepared to face the consequences - or to lead a revolution!

  Howard Gardner

  Loyalty, Revolution, Action

  Source: multipleintelligencesoasis.org

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• Free speech is important whether you like what's being said or not. The reason why it's so important is that the entire spectrum of ideas needs to be heard so that the best ones are embraced and rise to the top. If you're a liberal and don't like conservative speech and you try to stifle that conservative speech, you need to be prepared for your own progressive speech to be stifled when the power shifts out of your favor.

  Shepard Fairey

  Important, Trying, Conservative

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don't really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use, and you don't know exactly where it will apply. So you have to be prepared, but not locked into that preparation.

  Bob Costas

  Preparation, Use, Spontaneous

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• In the same way that we have a body and a soul and a spirit, our soul can't walk in the street without our body - we would be dead then. Religion is the same way; it has to have a body, it has to have a form, it has to have structure. Without that, the soul cannot be prepared to follow the tariqah.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Soul, Would Be, Body

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy. The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Moving, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To follow your life's guidance, you may have to reassign some seemingly important things to 'unimportant.' If you believe that pleasing your horrible boss or having a spotless house is a higher priority than playing with your children or sleeping off the flu, be prepared for a long and strenuous battle against destiny. Also, be prepared to lose.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Believe, Sleep

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• Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

  Werner Herzog

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Self, Practice, Desire

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

  Allen Covert

  Children, Hard Work, Pride

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