Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Never mistake mere activity for accomplishment

Don’t mistake activity for achievement. To produce results, tasks must be well organized and properly executed; otherwise, it’s no different from children running around the playground — everybody is doing something, but nothing is being done; lots of activity, no achievement.

When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

"Preparation" is a treacherous idea. In a certain sense every experience should do something to prepare a person for later experiences of a deeper and more expansive quality. That is the very meaning of growth, continuity, reconstruction of experience. But it is a mistake to suppose that the mere acquisition of a certain amount of arithmetic, geography, history, etc., which is taught and studied because it may be useful at some time in the future, has this effect, and it is a mistake to suppose that acquisition of skills in reading and figuring will automatically constitute preparation for their right and effective use under conditions very unlike those in which they were acquired.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Motion makes you feel like you’re getting things done. But really, you’re just preparing to get something done. When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.

Don’t mistake movement for achievement.

It’s a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.