Be Prepared Quotes - Page 20

• The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.

  Kevin Allen

  Team, People, Secret

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Green, Should

  "How to Be a Better Person in 2015, According to the Creators of Portlandia". www.ericspitznagel.com. January 8, 2015.

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• The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.

  Richard E. Besser

  Events, Lessons, Pay

  Source: content.time.com

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• If you want to make a difference in America, you need to be prepared for a very long, very frustrating slog.

  Kevin Drum

  Differences, America, Long

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• If we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues. For instance, we have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of immigration and it's impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills and general living conditions.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, School, Impact

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We need to be prepared to have multi-stakeholder, well-managed partnerships. That can be very effective. We saw this happen at international level with the UN Convention on Landmines, for example, where some governments didn't want to go forward, but enough governments did and with them many NGOs. At international level we need to see this as the 21st century way of doing things.

  Mary Robinson

  Government, Example, Needs

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Be prepared for changes.

  Diana L. Eck

  Prepared

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have to say one of the lessons I learned is to always be prepared.

  Wendy Starland

  Lessons, Prepared

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior people over there to assist the incoming South African regime to go about the economic plan.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, People, Economic

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party?

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Party, Jeans, Events

  "A New (Six-Foot-Ten) New Yorker Takes on Fashion Week" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. September 9, 2010.

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• If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.

  Anwar Ibrahim

  Practice, Rights, Champion

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• God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

  Joseph Bayly

  Years, People, Tonight

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• When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Heart, Winning, Forever

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• To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.

  Nelson Mandela

  Believe, Men, Suffering

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Wherever you escape, the truth will find you! Always be prepared to meet with it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Prepared

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• Be prepared for disappointment and frustration. Be persistent and bounce back even more determined to succeed.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Disappointment, Frustration, Determined To Succeed

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• Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Disappointment, Heart, Waiting

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• There are standards. I like to be prepared, I guess I should say - that type of pressure of, "All right, now you go with abandon," you know. Now when you're in it, you let go of all the things - that's what happens when you're onstage.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Letting Go, Pressure, Should

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

  Brian Tracy

  Choices, Decision, Life Is

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• The end is never the end. A new challenge awaits. A test no man could be prepared for. A new hell he must conquer and destroy. A new level of growth he must confront himself. The machine in the ghost within. This is the journey of the man on the moon.

  Kid Cudi

  Journey, Men, Moon

  Song: Up Up and Away, Album: Man on the Moon: The End of Day, 2009

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• A warrior who is prepared to fight must also be prepared to die.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Warrior, Dies

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• If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, www.npr.org. December 1999.

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• The challenge is not to get caught up in the hoopla. To understand what goes into winning - stay focused, you've got to be prepared, you need an edge. If you get lost in all the other stuff you're not going to be prepared to play well.

  Tom Thibodeau

  Winning, Play, Challenges

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• Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realize that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender.

  M. Scott Peck

  Art, Journey, Realizing

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

  George Washington

  Fighting, Way, Prepared

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