Charles M. Schulz Quotes

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

You cannot take things for granted.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

When in doubt, throw it out.

No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

I've learned after so many years in this business that nothing is set in stone until you're on set. I've been told I was the choice for years and never got hired. So I never go there in my mind.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

It's never a done deal until it's a done deal.

I am not taking anything for granted.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

All I can say is hold on, and prepare.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.