Planning Quotes - Page 19

• You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing.' I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in.

  Paul Anka

  Giving Up, Grandmother, Laughing

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• Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Today, Plans

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• Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

  Robert B. Parker

  Writing, Giving, Credit

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• One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Wish, Firsts

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.30, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rivers, Memorial, Political

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

  Molly O'Neill

  Elegance, Backbone, Understated

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• The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

  Frank Bettger

  Time, Freedom, Work

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: for they win in advance, defeating those that have already lost.

  Sun Tzu

  Winning, Rivers, Battle

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• I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of liberty should also reveal new forms of beauty in the world, astonishing evidence of order without dictate, lovely examples of innovation without planning, and other magical things. Surely these deserve some attention too.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Passion, Order, Ideas

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• You don't get anything done by planning

  Karl Pilkington

  Done

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• A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

  John Maeda

  Thinking, Together, Designer

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2016

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• If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

  Mike Dirnt

  Today, Next, Forget You

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• I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

  Lea Salonga

  Want, Information, Empowering Women

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cooking is a holistic process of planning, preparing, dining and sharing food. I place food at the center of our humanity, as it nourishes not only our physical bodies but also our emotional and spiritual lives. Food is truly a cultural phenomenon that informs our traditions and our relationship with the earth. I genuinely believe that food connects us all.

  Eric Ripert

  Spiritual, Believe, Emotional

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• People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized.

  Ray LaHood

  Should Have, Voice, America

  "Feds Deem Pedestrians, Cyclists and Motorists Equals" by Jason Kambitsis, www.wired.com. March 19, 2010.

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• It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

  Horace Walpole

  Conquer, Easier, Plans

  Letter to Mann, 27 March 1772, in 'Letters'

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• When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.

  Smoky Joe Wood

  Dream, Lying, Fighting

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• Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

  Denis Waitley

  Asking Questions, Phones, Waiting

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• But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

  Jon Postel

  Home, People, Speed

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

  Alan Dean Foster

  Joy, Spontaneity, Existence

  Alan Dean Foster (1982). “Nor crystal tears”, Del Rey

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• Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).

  Janet Napolitano

  Christmas, Technology, Deployment

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