Be Ready Quotes

Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have.

When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement.

I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.

I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

I'm ready to meet a nice man!

I just want a life that's full of up-leveled joy. And I'm ready to meet a nice man! Put that out there, too.

Hate is all that keeps us alive when love is gone. You’re almost there. Not quite ready to let it go yet.

I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens.

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.

Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality.

If I look back after 10 weeks and say I really want to stay then maybe I can make that happen. If I say OK it was good, but I’m ready to go then I can go, but for now I’m taking it week by week.

A mom has to be ready for anything.

I have a dream: that in my job, everything goes a bit faster. Five minutes hair, make-up five minutes, ten minutes and ready for a good picture. That would make life much easier.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.

I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

You can never be too prepared. I don't believe creativity needs to come from chaos, I find it's easier to be creative when I'm really "ready".

I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now.

I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

I didn't think we'd get to this point that we're at now, but I was ready to lead If we got to this point.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

Make your move BEFORE you are ready!

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

China is innocent. China is ready to watch the investigation and to watch the possible results of that investigation.

The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.

...I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.

My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.

There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

Yes, I want kids. I don't know that I'll ever be ready. But, I'll certainly want them. I'll have them regardless of whether I am ready, I think. I just don't have a timeframe on it yet.

Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.

And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.

The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.