Planning Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

  Robert McNamara

  Reality, Shapes, Poor Planning

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• Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

  George S. Patton

  Trying, Urban, Fit

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• Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

  Louis-Philippe I of France

  Urban, Habit, Walking

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• The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Crazy, Race, Cities

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• We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Design, Today

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• Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

  Dee Hock

  Heart, Practice, People

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• It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

  James M. Kouzes

  Common Purpose, People, Atmosphere

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2010). “The Leadership Challenge”, p.318, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Skills, Ideas, People

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• If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

  Dennis Conner

  Ifs

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• There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

  James M. Kouzes

  Dream, Rely Upon, Leader

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

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• One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

  Rollo May

  Way, Forget You, Irresponsible

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• Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Surprise

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• If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty. Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams. Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Dream, Mean, Blessing

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• Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for reform, for a quicker process, they're really calling for a restriction of the rights of people to be involved in the planning process.

  Daniel Kammen

  Rights, Law, People

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• Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S

  Rosa DeLauro

  Government, Abortion, Low Income

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