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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, Harmony

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• For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Moon, Journey, Firsts

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• I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Dream, Courage

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• The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Fighting, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Baseball, Player, Curveballs

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• I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

  Shannon Miller

  School, Law, Practice

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• I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Spring, School

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• Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

  Peter Thiel

  Long, World, Term

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.63, Crown Business

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• Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.

  Richard V. Allen

  Summer, Team, Years

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• Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations

  Hideki Tojo

  Military, Power, Views

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• Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

  Curt Weldon

  Military, Cells, Secret

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• The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

  Thomas J. Stanley

  Foundation, Defense, Budgeting

  Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (1996). “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy”, p.38, Government Institutes

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• I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.

  Tracy Austin

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• The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tombstone, Hands, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

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• I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

  E. B. White

  Success, Morning, Determination

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• Disappointment requires adequate planning.

  Richard Bandler

  Disappointment, Adequate

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• Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Secret

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

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• Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Opportunity, Optimism, Luck

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• You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspiring, Wise, Goal

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.33, Pelican Publishing

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• Plan your work and work your plan.

  Marv Levy

  Inspirational, Football, Plans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

  Justin Kan

  Smart, Skills, Careers

  "10 Smart Quotes From ‘Innovation Uncensored’ Conference" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I was planning on this being something worth mentioning, energy invested in someone I saw potential in

  Drake

  Relationship, Energy, Saws

  Song: July

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• ...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social and emotional life. The great apes are therefore an ideal case for showing the arbitrariness of the species boundary. If we think that all human beings, irrespective of age or mental capacity, have some basic rights, how can we deny that the great apes, who surpass some humans in their capacities, also have these rights?

  Peter Singer

  Emotional, Thinking, Animal

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• It takes time to save time.

  Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

  Time, Stress, Goal

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