Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'."
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Alicia Keys
Singer, Songwriter, Actress
"You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever."
George Harrison
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God."
Marie Forleo
Entrepreneur, Author
"The key to SUCCESS is to START before you're ready"
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"I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist."
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"Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both."
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"If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach."
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"You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities."
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"Ready...set-y...spaghetti!"
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"If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers"
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"You have to wake up every day ready to start again."
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"...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."
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"If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready."
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"You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so that at any moment, when inspiration happens, you're ready for it and you interpret it."
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"Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life."
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"Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction."
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"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled."
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"If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late."
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"I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity."
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"When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear."
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"Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic."
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"You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through."
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"You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'."
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"So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life."
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