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A goal without a plan is just a wish.
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humor
inspirational
enterprise
planning
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
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imagination
dreams
inspirational
possibility
excitement
dreaming
planning
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Gloria Steinem |
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...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.
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past
davita
potok
harp
understand
planning
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Chaim Potok |
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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.
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planning
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Doris Lessing |
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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.
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life
wisdom
successful-people
goal-setting
planning
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Brian Tracy |
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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success
planning
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Isaac Asimov |
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All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
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mice-men
unpredictability
plans
planning
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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I am a master of foolhardy plans.
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planning
wit
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
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life
wisdom
planning
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Brian Tracy |
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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.
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motive
purpose
planning
strategy
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Joanne Harris |
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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.
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history
success
reconsideration
society
planning
values
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Jared Diamond |
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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
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planning
getting-started
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Jim Butcher |
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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.
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resource-allocation
planning
strategy
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Clayton M. Christensen |
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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.
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life
planning
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E.M. Forster |
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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.
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opposition
timing
planning
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Roger Zelazny |
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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.
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peace-of-mind
planning
disappointment
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Thomas Hardy |
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Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.
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emotion
danger
planning
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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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.
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reading
freebies
reading-lists
president
planning
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Nick Hornby |
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Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.
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fear
planning
strategy
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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planning
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Alan Dean Foster |
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... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
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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
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E.A. Bucchianeri |
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Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.
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fantasy
crystal-cave
mary-stewart
merlin
tactics
king-arthur
planning
strategy
legend
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Mary Stewart |
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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.
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architecture
planning
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Rebecca Solnit |
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Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.
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violence
planning
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Garth Ennis |
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Remember the seven Ps. Seven what? Proper preparation and planning... Prevent piss-poor performance.
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preparation
planning
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Garth Ennis |
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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.
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magic
prayer
comfort
religion
planning
secularism
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Graham Greene |
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Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.
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romanticism
graciousness
planning
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E.M. Forster |
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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.
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planning
writers
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John Irving |
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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.
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travel
plans
thinking
planning
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Max Barry |
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Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Plan as we might, they defy our planning.
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death
planning
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Dan Simmons |
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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.
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hero-and-anthony
thoughtfulness
planning
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Georgette Heyer |
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When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.
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optimism
pessimism
planning
pragmatism
strategy
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Geraldine Brooks |
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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.
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genius
planning
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