Lack of Preparation Quotes

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

The trouble with General Hooker is that he has his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.

We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, 'Before they get up to speak they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they sit down, they do not know what they have said.'

I didn't mentally prepare as well for Ngoudjo as I should have. I was a little lax in the fight.

The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

If you play a bad game, you can't say it was because you were injured.

Plenty of candidates don’t write their own foreign policy position papers, but Romney is unusual in that he seems not to have even read his.

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

The incompetence of the [Donald] Trump transition team, the likes of which we've never seen is a bad thing.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics. What I didn't realize he was missing at the time was a complete and utter lack of preparation, knowledge, and common sense.

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I don't know anything.' The only thing I'd ever technically studied was filmmaking.

...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to know that I didn't have all the capacity they thought I did in order to just execute this through the stroke of a pen.

I was thrust into the spotlight and didn't really know what I was doing. The opportunity was amazing but I wasn't ready for any of it.

People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.

I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.