“Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.” StageAmountWastePreparedChaosFrustrationBe Prepared Author:E. O. Wilson
“A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.” WorldOrderGrowthSupportLandFutureWasteFoundationPlantPreparedSoilContinentsAdapted Author:James Hutton
“I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.” KindLittlesHardOpportunityMissingHard WorkWasteSolutionsImportanceMeetingsPreparedIllAll KindsWasting TimeUrgentStrategicSynergy Author:Stephen Covey
“If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to do in this lifetime is to perfect this pattern, so that it will continue a most beautiful pattern next time and next time and next time and next time because we vowed until samsara is empty! Now, that's going to be a long time, so you'd better get prepared for the long haul, and the best way to do that is to really prepare yourself as much as possible in this lifetime, and not waste your opportunities so that we can genuinely benefit beings, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.” IfsWayLongWholeBeautifulTurnsNextOpportunityPerfectWasteBenefitsLong TimeEmptyPreparedLifetimePatternsBest WayNext TimeHaulLong HaulSamsara Author:Tenzin Palmo
“You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.” WayWritingFactsHelpingHandsReadingCausesTreeWasteInstrumentsNotesPreparedAwfulHittingBe PreparedReally Happy Author:J. K. Rowling
“I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.” IdeasCoursesMistakeLearningWillingFailureWasteProjectsBlamePreparedBoardsDoomedBad IdeasDumpProject ManagementOutfits Author:Luke Johnson
“Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.” HeartMadeJoyForceGriefPrideMy HeartWasteHatredDistancePreparedTerrorRevengeRageSelfishPursuitCrownsSavagesHelplessness Book:I explain a few things: selected poems Source: I explain a few things: selected poems
“The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.” MenShowsMightSuccessCareersSuccessfulTakenStrengthHe ManMountainWastePreparedPreparationUnsuccessfulUnpreparedHowards EndSuccessful Career Book:Howards End Source: Howards End