Planning Quotes - Page 23

• What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Use, Answers

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.39, Macmillan

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• In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

  Brian Tracy

  Integrity, Caring, Numbers

  Brian TRACY (2009). “Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life”, p.75, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

  Steven Pressfield

  Foundation, Resistance, Months

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• What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Gains, Would Be, Needs

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Design, Hammers, Use

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• Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

  Crawford Greenewalt

  Motivational, Three, Execution

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• Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

  Robert Grudin

  Flaws, Made, Plans

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If it's planned, it's boring

  Freddie Mercury

  Boring, Ifs

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• Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?

  Esther Hicks

  Positive, Thinking, Appreciate

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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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• Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

  Bliss Carman

  Writing, Miracle, Building

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• Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.

  Michael Hyatt

  Vacation, People, Week

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• As long as we are
  successful on the pitch, then I
  will be here-unless Manchester United put in a call. But I don't think Sir Alex
  Ferguson is planning to step
  down just yet!

  Paul Ince

  Successful, Thinking, Long

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• In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Growing Up, Opportunity

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket

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• I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.

  Anne Geddes

  Flower, Book, Thinking

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• We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

  Robin Boyd

  Needs, Architecture, Exciting

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• Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.

  Robin Boyd

  Dust, Yellow, White

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• The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.

  Robert Peary

  Successful, Next, Expeditions

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

  Douglas MacArthur

  Today, Plans

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• 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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• 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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• Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

  Winston Churchill

  Priceless, Plans, Worthless

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