Planning Quotes
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, bla...
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Show MoreThinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I...
Show MoreEvolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstance...
Show MoreThe line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth....
Show MoreWell, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a p...
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I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's noth...
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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far mor...
Show MoreThe intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I exp...
Show MoreMany problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For pr...
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As I'm sure you may know, I'm planning to become a spaceflight participant and have been recently ap...
Show MoreEverything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hop...
Show MoreYou can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out ...
Show MorePlans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes a...
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For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my you...
Show MoreThe future is already here – it's just not evenly distri
Is then no nook of English ground secureFrom rash assault?
If you don't know where you are going,you'll end up someplace else.
If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
"You can't have a plan for your day, 'til you have a plan for your life."
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may ha...
Show MoreMen often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may ha...
Show MoreMindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and co...
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An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go i...
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The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. W...
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordi...
Show MoreThe problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always pl...
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Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly fo...
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All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal...
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal ...
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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the ...
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In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.
Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system ...
Show MoreI am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alter...
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things ...
Show MoreIt's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the futu...
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Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...
Show MorePlanning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations...
Show MoreWithout leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...
Show MoreBut she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that on...
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I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contra...
Show MoreNo neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matt...
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To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:...
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[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East...
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsew...
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As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--bec...
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Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered...
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Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societi...
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There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the ...
Show MoreAction has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level...
Show MoreAt the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in...
Show MoreThe time to repair the roof is when the sun is sh