Quotes about Unpreparedness

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Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Norman Schwarzkopf

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Warren Buffett

… you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out..

Many companies appear to be doing much better than they really are. Often they employ PR professionals to create that impression. Some companies are not even solvent, but the only way we can all tell is to have a recession generally or in that particular sector—the equivalent of the tide going out.

Sun Tzu

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

Warren Buffett

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Andre Gide

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

John Wooden

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Ruth Rendell

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Bob Dylan

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

Warren Buffett

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Daniel Defoe

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

James R. Elder

We thought we would get around to it sometime down the line. Theoretically we could have regulated it, but it wasn't on our radar screen.

Cryptocporidium is an illness caused by parasites in drinking water. It has been known about since 1974, but when the EPA set standards for drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act, but did not include Cryptocporidium.

Margaret Trudeau

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

Adlai Stevenson I

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Drake

All in all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go.

Robbie Lawler

You don't appreciate what you have when it all comes to you real quick. I went from nothing to everything all at once.

Moby

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

Dean Koontz

the worst happens when you least expect it

Bob Newhart

I don't have a stack of scripts.

Tom Holland

'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.

Allison Anders

I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.

William McKinley

I must have money to get ready for war. I am doing everything possible to prevent war but it must come, and we are not prepared.

Shortly after the Maine blew up in Havana Harbor:

Pierre Corneille

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Samuel Butler

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Kelsea Ballerini

I've never been scared, but I'm very naive.

Unpreparedness Quotes