“It’s a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.”
Source: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
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“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Wooden only repeated a common aphorism (e.g. Interview on Charlie Rose, reported by Bill Walton), which was already in circulation as early as the 1920s, when he was a youth. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=bks%3A1%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3AJan+1_2+1900%2Ccd_max%3ADec+31_2+1930&q=%22fail+to+prepare%22+%22prepare+to+fail%22 <br class="br">Misattributed
“If we fail to prepare, we prepare to fail.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
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“Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.”
Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer
Luis Miguel (1970) Puerto Rican singer; music producer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aipyRne6dso
Interview in Mexico, 1995
“If you are prepared to die, you are prepared to live.”
T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader
On the death of John Evans Atta-Mills - "Prophet TB Joshua Opens Up On Atta-Mills' Death" https://www.naij.com/4448.html Naij (August 1 2012)
“Since I only prepare for what ought to happen to me, I am never prepared for what does. Never.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Como sólo me preparo para lo que debiera sucederme, no me hallo preparado para lo que me sucede. Nunca.
Voces (1943)
“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
Source: Principle-Centered Leadership (1992), Ch. 11