Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.
Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.
You see people who get so many big opportunities, and they take them, and they're not ready.
It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.
You were totally unprepared for her.” “That's for damned sure.
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.
Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.
I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.
The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.
Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.