According To Plan Quotes

• Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Panic, Plans

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", 2008.

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• The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

  Richard V. Allen

  Successful, Important Choices, People

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• I'm very structured. I like planning things out. I get frustrated when they don't go according to plan.

  Tia Mowry

  Frustrated, Planning, Plans

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• Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

  Simon Sinek

  Facts, Plans

  Twitter post from Jul 07, 2009

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• No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Battle, Plans

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• Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

  Heath Ledger

  Guy, Looks, Batman Dark Knight

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.

  Zig Ziglar

  Plans, Ifs

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• You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

  John Berger

  Events, Plans, Ifs

  John Berger (1972). “Selected Essays and Articles: The Look of Things”

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• One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Reason Why, Reason, Plans

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• Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

  Orson Scott Card

  Missing, Trying, Who We Are

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• Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

  Armando Iannucci

  President, Ends, Messy

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• According to CNN, Donald Rumsfeld said the war in Iraq did not go according to plan. And President Bush said, 'What? We had a plan?'

  Jay Leno

  War, Iraq, Cnn

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• Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II. He was in B17 Flying Fortresses out of England, they say. His cautious, conservative approach to every situation and the complexity of the plays he sends in do seem to reflect the philosophy of a pilot trained to doggedly press on according to plans laid down before takeoff. I sometimes wonder how the Cowboys would have fared all this years had Tom flown fighters in combat situations which dictated continuously changing tactics.

  Len Morgan

  Philosophy, War, Believe

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• The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".

  Richard Carlson

  Humility, Creating, Peaceful

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with true measure and then perform his work according to plan. Thus he passes through life.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Tools, Use

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

  Drake

  Negative, Stories, Flip

  "Drake: 'Why do you hate me so much?'" by Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation, to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak. I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.

  Albert Hofmann

  Character, Reality, Emotional

  "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.

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• As you begin to live in the present moment, you will experience a subtle but profound change.  Worrying about the future will cease.  A deep peace will enfold you, a peace that says, 'all is well.  There is nothing to fear.  Everything is unfolding according to plan, and you are being guided each step along the way.

  Douglas Bloch

  Profound, Worry, Way

  Douglas Bloch (1988). “Words That Heal: Affirmations and Meditations for Daily Living”, p.2, BookBaby

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• Covert Operations Report At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a tracking device by Agent Cameron, and a very scary look from Operative Goode. (She also got a tip that her bra strap was showing from Operative McHenry.) The Operative then undertook a basic reconnaissance mission inside a potentially hostile location. (But it wasn't as hostile as Operative Baxter was going to be if everything didn't go according to plan.)

  Ally Carter

  Scary, Location, October

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• I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.

  Zach Braff

  People, Creative, Frustrated

  "Marathon Man: Zach Braff". Interview with Jennifer Campbell, www.askmen.com.

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• ...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

  Ally Carter

  Doe, Easy, Plans

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

  Douglas Adams

  Work Out, Mad, Twenties

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.330, Pan Macmillan

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• Well clearly Graeme it all went according to plan, what was the plan exactly ?

  Elton Welsby

  Soccer, Plans, Wells

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• The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

  Laozi

  Agendas, Tao, Planning

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• Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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