Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.

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

Recipe for success: underpromise and overdeliver.

We are never prepared for what we expect.

We very often fail to see our present circumstances in right perspective.

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

In the operative part there are two defects and two corresponding prerogatives of instances. For operation either fails us or it overtasks us. The chief cause of failure in operation (especially after natures have been diligently investigated) is the ill determination and measurement of the forces and actions of bodies.

When opportunity knocks, it’s too late to prepare.

When we expect the worst of things, we prevent ourselves from showing up with the energy required to prove ourselves wrong.

We often miss our point by dividing our attention.“

- The Sportsman and the Spaniel

I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.