Planning Quotes - Page 26

• But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

  Anna Neagle

  Dream, Thinking, Solitude

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• Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.

  Mark McCormack

  Inspirational, Thinking, Years

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• That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Attitude, Food, Justice

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• This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.

  John T. Flynn

  Enemy, Mask, Deny

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• It's funny how the world works, how we win and lose, how we can never really know what's ahead though we never stop planning. How we survive and move on. There's a sadness that comes with survival, but also more joy to be had.

  Anna McPartlin

  Moving, Sadness, Winning

  Anna McPartlin (2008). “Pack Up the Moon”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Book, Adventure, Earth

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• No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Army, Weekend, Night

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• To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Teaching, Mean, Sometimes

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Agency, Government

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• If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Odds, Favors

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• Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.

  Mary Blakely

  Mean, Kids, Yale

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie”, Pocket

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• Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

  Frances Cornford

  Long, Unprepared

  'Youth' (1910) (on Rupert Brooke)

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• The structure is there, and will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

  Donald Curtis

  Patterns, Action, Structure

  "Your Thoughts Can Change Your Life".

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• When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was interested in making. I still do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but the reason I can move quickly is that I've done the background work first, which no one usually sees. I prepare myself thoroughly, and then when it is time to move ahead, I am ready to sprint.

  Donald Trump

  Work, Moving, People

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• I'm a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I don't like being swayed by anything that might be negative or damaging.

  Donald Trump

  Morning, Guy, Negative

  Donald Trump (2010). “Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life”, p.148, Vanguard Press

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• We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.

  George W. P. Hunt

  Chance, Force, Forces Of Nature

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• These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

  Jim Schwab

  Opportunity, Community, Decision

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• A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

  Richard Carson

  Different, Likes, Urban

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• The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Names, House

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• Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

  John Prebble

  Men, Engineering, Approval

  John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

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• By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

  Socrates

  Cities, Community, Urban

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• If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

  William J. Brennan

  Why Not, Urban, Constitution

  "Viewpoint: A Blow to Property Rights" by Bernard H. Siegan, reason.com. September 1984.

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• I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Zoologist, City Planning

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• A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Urban, Traffic, Thousand

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• A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Caring, Land, May

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