Planning Quotes - Page 13

• The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.

  Jimmy Cornell

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.

  Richard Evans Schultes

  Adventure, Expeditions, Incapable

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• If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

  Claire Cook

  Determination, Japan, Letters

  Claire Cook (2015). “Seven Year Switch”, p.222, Marshbury Beach Books

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• Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.

  Sandra Postel

  Philosophy, Science, Agency

  Sandra Postel (1985). “Conserving water: the untapped alternative”, Worldwatch Inst

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• "I've always been a proponent of "if you're going to do something, do it right." I applied that across all aspects of my shooting - planning, setting up shoots, getting up early, working with athletes and models, working with clients etc. Just being a pro about it.

  Jimmy Chin

  Photography, Athlete, Up Early

  "How to Capture Creative Gold When You’re at the End of Your Rope — Literally". Interview with Chase Jarvis, www.chasejarvis.com.

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• If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex of its development; if they can be made to understand that the conflicts and contradictions of society can only be resolved by scientific long-range planning-then we will succeed in maintaining what civilization we have and drive onward to greater culture.

  Joost Meerloo

  Confused, Men, Civilization

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• But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.

  Manuel De Landa

  Information Processing, Decision, Events

  Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

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• Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Baby, Business, Book

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• It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

  Herodotus

  Design, Outcomes, Favour

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.508, OUP Oxford

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• He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

  Herodotus

  Men, Action, Plans

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• Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

  Fred Brooks

  Firsts, Programming, First Time

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often, some things will work, others won't, refine and move forward and above all forget the money, just make sure you love what you're doing.

  Kevin Rose

  Moving, Design, Too Much

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• Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
  I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some.
  Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb...
  Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones.

  E-40

  Jesus, Rap, Dancing

  Song: Tell Me When To Go, Album: My Ghetto Report Card, 2006

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• Valentine cards and birthday wishes?
  Please...be on another level of planning, of understanding
  The bond between man and woman and child.
  The highest elevation, cause we above
  All that romance crap, just show your love.

  Method Man

  Children, Rap, Valentine

  Song: You're All I Need

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• We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
  Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Hip Hop, Demise

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• Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Presidential, Decision

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the joyful, spontaneous expression of one's self. The inner force materializes the feeling and perception without planning or effort. That is what play is.

  Michele Cassou

  Play, Self, Expression

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• He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.

  Umberto Eco

  Reality, Imagination, Creative

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.594, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a different person, but back to the person I used to be—strong and responsible, clear-eyed and driven, ethical and good. And the PCT would make me that way. There, I’d walk and think about my entire life. I’d find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Strong, Thinking, Different

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

  Jerry Brown

  Likes, Reason

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• A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise and often improve basic motor planning and sequencing capacities.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Exercise, Ideas, Attention

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• Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

  George Reisman

  Finance, Economic, Individual

  George Reisman (1979). “The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls”, Green Hill Pub

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• I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.

  Eli Broad

  Learning, Land, Worst Case Scenario

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• The people who did this act on America, and who may be planning further acts, are evil people. They don't represent an ideology, they don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're flat evil. That's all they can think about, is evil. And as a nation of good folks, we're going to hunt them down, and we're going to find them, and we will bring them to justice.

  George W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Evil People

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