{"quotes":[{"text":"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well as do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["inspirational-life","life","readiness","start-up"],"id":19649,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"Sic vis pacem para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["awareness","battles","choice","enemies","illusion","others","peace","people","preparation","preservation","protection","readiness","strength","survival","the-art-of-war","war","wisdom"],"id":32667,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have to think and to observe things without stagnation. We should accept things as they are without difficulty. Ou mind should be soft and open enough to understand things as they are. When our thinking is soft, it is called imperturbable thinking. This kind of thinking is always stable. It is called mindfulness.","author":"Shunryu Suzuki","tags":["mindfulness","readiness"],"id":130563,"author_id":"Shunryu+Suzuki"},{"text":"The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.","author":"Gina Greenlee","tags":["inspirational","life-s-journey","life-s-travels","motivational","readiness","readiness"],"id":173646,"author_id":"Gina+Greenlee"},{"text":"The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.","author":"Gina Greenlee","tags":["inspirational","life-s-journey","life-s-travels","motivational","readiness","readiness"],"id":173646,"author_id":"Gina+Greenlee"},{"text":"May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["alertness","attention","awareness","carefulness","caution","consciousness","death","heaven","keenness","mindfulness","readiness","wakefulness"],"id":200437,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["balance","common-sense","fear","negative-fear-driven","preparation","readiness","responsible","worries"],"id":216901,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["action","activity","agility","attempt","ballgame","beginning","business","climb","do","enterprise","fact","facts","fall","fatigue","food-for-thought","free","free-gift","fruit","hard-work","hardwork","idle","idleness","independence","industry","inspiring","laziness","lazy","learning","life","mango","maxim","motion","motivation","on-top","opportunity","paradox","practice","readiness","ready","selfish","selfishness","start","time","tree","truth","up","waiting","waste","winner","wisdom","yield"],"id":237750,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.","author":"Gary Rohrmayer","tags":["change","coachable","leader","leadership","leadership-development","readiness","willingness"],"id":240736,"author_id":"Gary+Rohrmayer"},{"text":"Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a specialprovidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will benow; if it be not now, yet it will come: thereadiness is all.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["augury","hamlet","providence","que-sera-sera","readiness","sadness"],"id":288496,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}