Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.
Don’t start your day until you have it finished on paper first.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
Plan for what is difficult when it is easy, do what is great when it is small.
Every battle is won before it is fought.
Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.
So the principles of warfare are: Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him. Do not depend on the enemy not attacking, but depend on our position that cannot be attacked.
Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
Train hard, fight easy.
Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.
A good process produces good results.
Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.
Above all, keep it simple.
Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty.
Most people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.