Henri Nouwen Quotes

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything.

For me, always being ready and knowing that when I have my opportunity, I have to go out there and do my best. My whole career has been like that. I try to do my best in putting my focus in what I can control.

When you have a coaching change, when you have trades, an injury, when you have all these things happening - these are all things that are out of your control. Quickly, you start to understand that, really, the only thing you can control is going out and playing hard every night and being ready for your opportunity.

You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.

Crazy things happen in this sport, and you have to be ready. And for me, luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

Expect the unexpected, and always be ready - everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself.

You've got to take what comes. You've got to make yourself available for everything; you've got to pray that you're in a position to do the jobs when they come around.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.