planning

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
ad01dfe	A goal without a plan is just a wish.	humor inspirational enterprise planning	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
daca326	Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.	imagination dreams inspirational possibility excitement dreaming planning	Gloria Steinem
031a94d	...everything has a past. Everything - a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don't know the past, you can't understand the present and plan properly for the future.	past davita potok harp understand planning	Chaim Potok
65670ae	I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.	planning	Doris Lessing
1bfcd60	All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.	life wisdom successful-people goal-setting planning	Brian Tracy
a591792	To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.	success planning	Isaac Asimov
e8963d9	All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.	mice-men unpredictability plans planning	Arthur C. Clarke
54bffd7	I am a master of foolhardy plans.	planning wit	Megan Whalen Turner
82edcc8	A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.	life wisdom planning	Brian Tracy
b8f6a95	A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.	motive purpose planning strategy	Joanne Harris
b30aad7	Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.	history success reconsideration society planning values	Jared Diamond
029e15f	You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.	planning getting-started	Jim Butcher
018f839	You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.	resource-allocation planning strategy	Clayton M. Christensen
737fdfa	It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.	life planning	E.M. Forster
bd4edca	An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.	opposition timing planning	Roger Zelazny
c254ef9	She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.	peace-of-mind planning disappointment	Thomas Hardy
292cfbd	Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.	emotion danger planning	Barbara W. Tuchman
4eb5c4f	I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ... Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path.	reading freebies reading-lists president planning	Nick Hornby
e957d4d	Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.	fear planning strategy	Robert A. Heinlein
7632d53	Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.	planning	Alan Dean Foster
8564f82	... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.	mankind man mind philosophical grand-plans imprisionment imprison when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart christopher-marlowe faustian faustus marlowe sad-but-true plans planning faust	E.A. Bucchianeri
3c09521	Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.	fantasy crystal-cave mary-stewart merlin tactics king-arthur planning strategy legend	Mary Stewart
97de8f8	One [project of Teddy Cruz's] is titled Living Rooms at the Border. it takes a piece of land with an unused church zoned for three units and carefully arrays on it twelve affordable housing units, a community center (the converted church), offices for Casa in the church's attic, and a garden that can accommodate street markets and kiosks. 'In a place where current regulation allows only one use,' [Cruz} crows, ' we propose five different uses that support each other. This suggests a model of social sustainability for San Diego, one that conveys density not as bulk but as social choreography.' For both architect and patron, it's an exciting opportunity to prove that breaking the zoning codes can be for the best. Another one of Cruz's core beliefs is that if architects are going to achieve anything of social distinction, they will have to become developers' collaborators or developers themselves, rather than hirelings brought in after a project's parameters are laid out.	architecture planning	Rebecca Solnit
ebee7e0	Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.	violence planning	Garth Ennis
7709c1f	Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.	romanticism graciousness planning	E.M. Forster
9f32ba4	Remember the seven Ps. Seven what? Proper preparation and planning... Prevent piss-poor performance.	preparation planning	Garth Ennis
b3b34b3	But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.	magic prayer comfort religion planning secularism	Graham Greene
3fb2877	Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Plan as we might, they defy our planning.	death planning	Dan Simmons
7c0acb4	Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.	travel plans thinking planning	Max Barry
cdfdb65	Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing.	planning writers	John Irving
5d49345	Sherry was so much relieved to find that Hero had no wish to keep her unfortunate protege permanently in the spare bedroom that he agreed to this plan, even go so far as to hand over, upon demand, a bill to defray the cost of suitable baby clothes for the destitute infant. Hero thanked him warmly and went away to set Ruth's mind at rest, leaving Sherry to congratulate himself on having brushed through the business better than had at one time seemed possible, Mr Ringwood to wrap himself in apparently profound thought, and Ferdy to devise an artistic death for the hypothetical husband.	hero-and-anthony thoughtfulness planning	Georgette Heyer
38af6e7	When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.	optimism pessimism planning pragmatism strategy	Geraldine Brooks
48900b8	He needed a plan. Something audacious and brilliant. Something that had never been attempted before. Artemis was not unduly worried on that front. His brain had never let him down before.	genius planning	Eoin Colfer

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

daca326

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

imagination dreams inspirational possibility excitement dreaming planning

Gloria Steinem

031a94d

...everything has a past. Everything - a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don't know the past, you can't understand the present and plan properly for the future.

past davita potok harp understand planning

Chaim Potok

65670ae

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

planning

Doris Lessing

1bfcd60

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

life wisdom successful-people goal-setting planning

Brian Tracy

a591792

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

success planning

Isaac Asimov

e8963d9

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

mice-men unpredictability plans planning

Arthur C. Clarke

54bffd7

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

planning wit

Megan Whalen Turner

82edcc8

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

life wisdom planning

Brian Tracy

b8f6a95

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

motive purpose planning strategy

Joanne Harris

b30aad7

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

history success reconsideration society planning values

Jared Diamond

029e15f

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

planning getting-started

Jim Butcher

018f839

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.

resource-allocation planning strategy

Clayton M. Christensen

737fdfa

It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.

life planning

E.M. Forster

bd4edca

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

opposition timing planning

Roger Zelazny

c254ef9

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

peace-of-mind planning disappointment

Thomas Hardy

292cfbd

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

emotion danger planning

Barbara W. Tuchman

4eb5c4f

I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ... Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path.

reading freebies reading-lists president planning

Nick Hornby

e957d4d

Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.

fear planning strategy

Robert A. Heinlein

7632d53

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

planning

Alan Dean Foster

8564f82

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

mankind man mind philosophical grand-plans imprisionment imprison when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart christopher-marlowe faustian faustus marlowe sad-but-true plans planning faust

E.A. Bucchianeri

3c09521

Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.

fantasy crystal-cave mary-stewart merlin tactics king-arthur planning strategy legend

Mary Stewart

97de8f8

One [project of Teddy Cruz's] is titled Living Rooms at the Border. it takes a piece of land with an unused church zoned for three units and carefully arrays on it twelve affordable housing units, a community center (the converted church), offices for Casa in the church's attic, and a garden that can accommodate street markets and kiosks. 'In a place where current regulation allows only one use,' [Cruz} crows, ' we propose five different uses that support each other. This suggests a model of social sustainability for San Diego, one that conveys density not as bulk but as social choreography.' For both architect and patron, it's an exciting opportunity to prove that breaking the zoning codes can be for the best. Another one of Cruz's core beliefs is that if architects are going to achieve anything of social distinction, they will have to become developers' collaborators or developers themselves, rather than hirelings brought in after a project's parameters are laid out.

architecture planning

Rebecca Solnit

ebee7e0

Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.

violence planning

Garth Ennis

7709c1f

Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.

romanticism graciousness planning

E.M. Forster

9f32ba4

Remember the seven Ps. Seven what? Proper preparation and planning... Prevent piss-poor performance.

preparation planning

Garth Ennis

b3b34b3

But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.

magic prayer comfort religion planning secularism

Graham Greene

3fb2877

Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Plan as we might, they defy our planning.

death planning

Dan Simmons

7c0acb4

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

travel plans thinking planning

Max Barry

cdfdb65

Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing.

planning writers

John Irving

5d49345

Sherry was so much relieved to find that Hero had no wish to keep her unfortunate protege permanently in the spare bedroom that he agreed to this plan, even go so far as to hand over, upon demand, a bill to defray the cost of suitable baby clothes for the destitute infant. Hero thanked him warmly and went away to set Ruth's mind at rest, leaving Sherry to congratulate himself on having brushed through the business better than had at one time seemed possible, Mr Ringwood to wrap himself in apparently profound thought, and Ferdy to devise an artistic death for the hypothetical husband.

hero-and-anthony thoughtfulness planning

Georgette Heyer

38af6e7

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

optimism pessimism planning pragmatism strategy

Geraldine  Brooks

48900b8

He needed a plan. Something audacious and brilliant. Something that had never been attempted before. Artemis was not unduly worried on that front. His brain had never let him down before.

genius planning

Eoin Colfer