Todd Barry Quotes

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.

I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

It's very, very difficult when you have to prepare for something that might not ever happen.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.