“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.”
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
Misattributed
“If we fail to prepare, we prepare to fail.”
Fail to prepare; prepare to fail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Attributed to Franklin in Julita Agustin-Israel, Lakas ng Loob, 1996, p. 53 https://books.google.com/books?id=2Z59AAAAMAAJ&q=prepare; there is no evidence that he coined any forms of this quote.
Misattributed
“Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aipyRne6dso
Interview in Mexico, 1995
“If you are prepared to die, you are prepared to live.”
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.”
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.”
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
Source: Principle-Centered Leadership (1992), Ch. 11