As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.
If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it's just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.
My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.
I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.
No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.
I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it.
If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.
I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.
You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.
One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
We need students to understand how the world has changed and be prepared to make contributions in a new way.
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.
Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.
Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.
Confidence and belief in yourself and your vision is absolutely paramount. The fashion industry is tough - be prepared to take advice and criticism along the way, but have unwavering belief in your vision.
Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'
A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.
It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
Always be prepared to start.
Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to 'Be Prepared' to meet them.
