Planning quotes
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
-- A. A. Milne -
You're my all-in Della. I'll throw it all away for you. I just want you. I'm all in, baby. This life with you, I'm planning on us.
-- Abbi Glines -
When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.
-- Alan A. Altshuler -
Quit planning your dream and start living it.
-- Alan Cohen -
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I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left
-- Alden W. Clausen -
At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?
-- Alexander Cairncross -
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Forethought spares afterthought.
-- Amelia Barr -
I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
-- Amy Winehouse -
The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.
-- Andrew S. Draper -
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Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.
-- Andy Gilbert -
If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.
-- Ann Coulter -
What were you going to do with it?†McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.†"Were you planning to attack me?†"No. But that’s a good idea.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
-- Arnold Bennett -
From Day 1 I wasnt planning to run until I am very old.
-- Asafa Powell -
Man's best friend is a really good plan!
-- Barry Gallagher -
Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
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I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
-- Ben Chandler -
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
-- Ben Horowitz -
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
-- Ben Stein -
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.
-- Bill Bonner -
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!
-- Bliss Carman -
Love doesn't just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it... Simply put: Love does!
-- Bob Goff -
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I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.
-- Britt Ekland -
We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning
-- Carl Menger -
To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
-- Cate Blanchett -
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I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.
-- Charles Kettering -
We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.
-- Charles R. Schwab -
Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
-- Charlie Batch -
They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.
-- Charlotte Church -
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Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
-- Charlotte Lennox -
I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.
-- Chester Brown -
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
-- Chip Kidd -
You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything.
-- Chris Pratt -
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Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.
-- Christian Bale -
Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.
-- Chuck Hagel -
I don't really have a career plan.
-- Damien Hirst -
I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
-- Dana Hill -
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
-- Daniel Burnham -
A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.
-- Daniel Burnham -
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.
-- Daniel Meyer -
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
-- David Hockney -
I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.
-- David Levithan -
Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.
-- David Morrissey -
The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
-- David Ogilvy -
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If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.
-- Dennis Conner -
What we're going to see is the emergence of the lone wolf rather than the planning of large numbers of people to carry out large attacks...Explosives are getting more sophisticated.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
-- Djuna Barnes -
I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.
-- Dolph Lundgren -
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
-- Don Meyer -
The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.
-- Donald Curtis -
Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.
-- Drew Houston -
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Planning to write is not writing.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
-- Ed McMahon -
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
-- Edmund Burke -
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Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
-- Emil Ludwig -
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
-- Emily Oster -
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.
-- Emma Donoghue -
Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.
-- Evan Esar -
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The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.
-- Faith Hill -
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
-- Frances Cornford -
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.
-- Francoise Giroud -
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Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.
-- Fred Brooks -
If it's planned, it's boring
-- Freddie Mercury -
The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.
-- Friedrich August von Hayek -
Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
-- George Reisman -
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Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.
-- George S. Patton -
We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.
-- George W. P. Hunt -
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
-- Gloria Steinem -
You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
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If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
-- Haile Gebrselassie -
Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model
-- Harold Kerzner -
There is no magic in small plans.
-- Henrietta Mears -
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.
-- Henry Mintzberg -
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You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
-- Hillary Clinton -
It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
-- Horace Walpole -
I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.
-- Hume Cronyn -
Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.
-- Ingvar Kamprad -
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There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
-- Irwin Redlener -
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
-- Isaac Asimov -
Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.
-- Jackie Speier -
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
-- James A. Garfield -
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.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
-- James Clavell -
There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream
-- James M. Kouzes -
About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?
-- James Nicoll -
hindsight is not a strategy.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn -
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(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)
-- Jane Jacobs -
Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.
-- Jason Schwartzman -
You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.
-- Jeff Olson -
The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
-- Jerry Brown -
