Unprepared Quotes - Page 3

• When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, People, Way

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• I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Desire, Done, Half

  "Autobiographical interview". Cahiers du Cinema Magazine, 1960.

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• Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Roots, People, Growth

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.262, Princeton University Press

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• I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Hate, Long

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• As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Courage, Morning, Mean

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• Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

  Suzanne Collins

  Humorous, Catching Fire, Target

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

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• Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.

  Muriel Lester

  Prayer, Fifteen, Start The Day

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• The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not aware of how rare it was to be an African American, how rare it was to have four years of training under my belt, and how, even though I could imitate people and fake it, unprepared I was to become a professional.

  Misty Copeland

  Years, People, Fake

  Source: collider.com

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• I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Attitude, Practice, Community

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• If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.

  George Henry Lewes

  Real, Philosophy, Views

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• I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Believe, Heart

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Science, Leaving, Atmosphere

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Real, Worry, Different

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Giving Up, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.263, Stanford University Press

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• Donald Trump is just unfit, unprepared, just doesn't get it, shouldn't be the commander in chief of America.

  Julian Castro

  America, Trump, Chiefs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don`t say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.

  Rajneesh

  Mistake, Simple, Two

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• Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Writing, School

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• Iraq broke our back in terms of counterterrorism. There's no doubt about it. The first thing, though, that hurt us was the fact that the U.S. military was absolutely unprepared to do anything on 9/11 - or 9/12 or 9/13. And by the time we actually attacked Afghanistan, al Qaeda and the Taliban had dispersed.

  Michael Scheuer

  Hurt, Military, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.

  Chris Eubank, Jr.

  Fighting, Opponents, Prepared

  "Chris Eubank Jr reveals Nick Blackwell has not spoken to him since career-ending fight" by Aaron Flanagan, www.mirror.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

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• I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.I can't let anything like that happen to me, I've got too many goals, too much ambition in the sport. We're looking to fight for a world title this year.

  Chris Eubank, Jr.

  Sports, Ambition, Fighting

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

  Sally Quinn

  Terrorist, Terrorist Attacks

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.

  Kyle Chandler

  Latin, Mean, School

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you knew Jesus was returning tomorrow, how would you feel today? Anxious, afraid, unprepared? If so, you can take care of your fears by placing your trust in Christ. If your answer includes words like happy, relieved, and excited, hold tightly to your joy.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Joy, Answers

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I come unprepared to shooting. I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland. I was given very little time to photograph people and I was very scared.

  Anton Corbijn

  People, Scared, Photograph

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People clearly want to believe that the world is a just and fair place. It provides them a sense of control and makes them psychologically comfortable. But believing that the world is a just and fair place causes people to not do enough to take care of themselves and to be unprepared for when it isn't so nice. So, people need to understand their tendencies to see the world as just and fair and then be realistic about the actual conditions in which they find themselves.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Nice, Believe, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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