“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
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Swedish filmmaker 1918–2007Related quotes
“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 3
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.”
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
“I am an improvised bridge, and when Someone passes over me, I crumble away behind Him.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: I am not alone in my fear, nor alone in my hope, nor alone in my shouting. A tremendous host, an onrush of the Universe fears, hopes, and shouts with me.
I am an improvised bridge, and when Someone passes over me, I crumble away behind Him.
“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.”
See You at the Top (2000)
" Once by the Pacific http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-by-the-pacific-2/" (1928)
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Context: You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life, 1990.
“There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”