“ One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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“ The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
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“ If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. ”
- Brooks Robinson- Copy
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“ Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
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“ Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. ”
- Roy D. Chapin Jr.- Copy
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“ What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do. ”
- Joe Namath- Copy
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“ Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ We are always getting ready to live, but never living. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
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“ E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea. ”
- Katherine Mansfield- Copy
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“ We've got a lot of momentum, a lot of confidence we're doing the right stuff because the athletes are showing it, especially in the big championships. ”
- Bode Miller- Copy
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“ We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. ”
- Jean Baptiste Rousseau- Copy
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“ Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ”
- G. M. Trevelyan- Copy
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“ Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. ”
- Nigel Dennis- Copy
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“ Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer- Copy
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“ Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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