Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

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

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

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.

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

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

I have had sufficient experience of the freaks of fortune; and as I have never trusted greatly to prosperity, I shall suffer less inconvenience from adversity.

The challenge of our times is to leave nothing to chance.

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.

One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage

Relying on luck … does not constitute a policy.

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.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

I don't know how to knit.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.