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Being unprepared heightens nerves. -- James Galway
Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk. -- John C. Reilly
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. -- Fred Allen
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. -- Harrison Ford
I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared. -- Lena Headey
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age. -- Ed Bradley
I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack. -- Sally Quinn
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life. -- Frances Cornford
The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid. -- Ralph C. Smedley
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. -- Sun Tzu
Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. -- Sun Tzu
Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening. -- Yasmin Mogahed
If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience. -- Anais Nin
Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery. -- Jeff Cooper
When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared. -- Guillermo del Toro
There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour. -- Winston Churchill
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. -- E. M. Forster
It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it. -- George Henry Lewes
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. -- Winston Churchill
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life. -- Philip Roth
Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared) -- Sharon Begley
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research. -- Nancy Grace
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency. -- Warren Rudman
High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study. -- Kyle Chandler
Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors was that they were straight and boring, so you see, I was completely unprepared for being one. -- Peter Capaldi
I like to be prepared enough to be completely unprepared. I don't know if I make sense, but I have a fantasy of living someone else's life. And to do that perfectly, I need to prepare myself just as properly. -- Nimrat Kaur
I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched. -- Gautam Gambhir
We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects. -- Howard Carter
As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long. -- Anna Maxwell Martin
It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared. -- James Forrestal
I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be unfocused or come in unprepared. I'm challenging and demanding, but very patient. I don't tell you how to get there and I don't show you what to do, though I'll ask leading questions. -- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star. -- John Wayne
I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it's a part of life. So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country today are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped. -- Rush Limbaugh
Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared. -- Zhuge Liang
I think I was unprepared for war. -- George W. Bush
Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure -- Lou Holtz
How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack. -- Sally Quinn
Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared. -- Idowu Koyenikan
Leaders today face challenges for which they are utterly unprepared. -- Scott D. Anthony
The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity. -- Alexander Fleming
You were totally unprepared for her." "That's for damned sure. -- Richelle Mead
Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you. -- Sun Tzu
Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared. -- Thomas a Kempis
Those who are unprepared to demonstrate tolerance cannot expect or even demand tolerance for themselves. -- Walter Kasper
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. -- Wilkie Collins
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a -- George S. Clason
Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do. -- Joe Montana
When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come. -- Neal Shusterman
Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared. -- Thomas a Kempis
Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared. -- Tony La Russa
Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared -- Joe Torre
Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice. -- Neal Boortz
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner. -- Benjamin Whichcote
And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain -- Dar Williams
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. -- Filip Dewinter
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things. -- John Steinbeck
I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent. -- Chris Eubank, Jr.
It was thinking negative thoughts or thinking positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference. -- Jack Canfield
Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared. -- Suzanne Collins
I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer. -- Jay Maisel
When people whom trouble is not a problem find themselves in a predicament, they are woefully unprepared... I, however, considered myself a professional. -- Nancy Wolfe
I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared. -- Cesare Borgia
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience. -- Katy Butler
In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them. -- Pat Summitt
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Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball. -- Tommy Docherty
I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?. -- William J. Clinton
But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown. -- Karen Thompson Walker
We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many. -- Henry David Thoreau
Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it. -- Sun Tzu
It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for. -- Jack Newfield
Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint. -- Charles Lindbergh
A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared. -- Martin Luther
I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice. -- Elizabeth Kenny
You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them. -- Lou Holtz
If he decided to pursue Sienna...Sucking in a breath Indigo promised herself she'd warn the girl if and when the time came-because no woman should have to face that campaign unprepared. -- Nalini Singh
I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself. -- Edgar Degas
Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing. -- Muriel Lester

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