Unprepared Quotes

• He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Winning, Waiting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Work, Humor

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• Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Real, Islamic, Stills

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• But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Lying, Afternoon

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Tactics And Strategy

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• Being unprepared heightens nerves.

  James Galway

  Nerves

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• He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

  Sun Tzu

  Wisdom, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Musashi Miyamoto, Inazo Nitobe (2016). “The Art of War - a Samurai Master Class”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Military, Art Of War

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• Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

  Frances Cornford

  Long, Planning

  'Youth' (1910) (on Rupert Brooke)

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Doors, Mind

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• I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

  Ed Bradley

  Age, Stories, Homework

  Interview with John Sears, RTNDA Communicator (RTNDA - Radio Television Digital News Association), Volume 54, August 2000.

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• I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

  Sally Quinn

  Pigs, Two, Ongoing

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

  E. M. Forster

  Strength, Success, Taken

  E. M. Forster (2012). “Howards End”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

  Harrison Ford

  Private Life, Bits

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• Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.52, Youcanprint

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• I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

  Lena Headey

  Actors, Pants, Seats

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• Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

  John C. Reilly

  Nervous, Old Fashioned, Shows

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• Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Way, Ready

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• The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

  Alexander Fleming

  Opportunity, Hands, Mind

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• Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.

  Joe Montana

  Complaining, Chance

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• He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Winning

  Sun Tzu (2013). “SUN TZU on the ART OF WAR”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer.

  Jay Maisel

  Filled Up, World, Want

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• Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)

  Sharon Begley

  Weather, New Normal, Energy

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• I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Mean, Sound, Affirmation

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Theological Essays”, p.195, Library of Alexandria

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