Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.
Amelia Earhart
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Zig Ziglar
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Even if a person excels in Torah and good deeds more than all his contemporaries, if he has not learned the secrets of Torah and the wisdom of truth, he must reincarnate in the world (...) Now the matter is clarifiedthe whole part of the revealed Torah is but a preparation to become worthy and merit attaining the concealed part. It is the concealed part that is very wholeness and the purpose for which man is created.
Yehuda Ashlag
The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
Eric Clapton
When you deploy forces, you must have a good reason. The country must be behind those forces. And they must be trained, prepared and supported.
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.