Planning Quotes - Page 37

• Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

  Leon Krier

  Towns, Architecture, Evolution

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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• Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

  Peter Drucker

  Expectations, Effort, Decision

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.120, Routledge

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• I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.

  Dave Gibbons

  Jobs, Character, Drawing

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• You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.

  Jeff Olson

  Dream, Building, Your Dreams

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• I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

  Laurel Lea

  Heaven, Ruins, Wonder

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

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• Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

  Laurel Lea

  Horse, Execution, Plans

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• I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

  John Katzman

  Fashion, Design Process, Sketching

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• Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  School, Men, Thinking

  "Breaking through the brass ceiling" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  Dana Hill

  Years, Tough, Medication

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• Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

  Terry Orlick

  Sports, Silver Platter, Hands

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• Sometimes we miss happy because we're always looking for something else. We worry, we give in to fear, we compare ourselves to others, we're planning and plotting, but happiness is here, it's a choice, day to day.

  Cathy Lamb

  Giving, Worry, Choices

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• In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

  Jo Coudert

  Past, Order, Appreciate

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• Inspiration means that you don't have to figure things out, or think about them. Ideas and answers pop into your head and the energy carries you forward, if you allow it. Planning. . . is a way of ritually killing inspiration, which transcends the need for planning.

  Chuck Spezzano

  Inspiration, Mean, Thinking

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• Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

  Ernesto Sirolli

  Motivation, Inspiration, Kissing

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• Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Earthquakes, Californians, Happens

  Sheila Ballantyne (1988). “Life on Earth: Stories”, Simon & Schuster

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• Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Dark, College, Land

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.57

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• Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Vision, Society

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles”, p.49, Basic Books

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• While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.

  Lewis Mumford

  Good Life, Garden, Expression

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• I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

  Tony Benn

  Alzheimer's, Feet, Speech

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• Forethought spares afterthought.

  Amelia Barr

  Forethought, Foresight, Spares

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres

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• We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.

  Brenda Ueland

  Reading, Talking, Listening

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.

  Steve Pavlina

  Your Future, Our Future, Models

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• It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning.

  Steve King

  Responsibility, Compassion, People

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• Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.

  Linda Lingle

  Integrity, Believe, Hard Work

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• I will be asking my network to lead a discussion on the issues of class, race, energy, the environment, disaster planning, Iraq -- all those things and more. This encompasses so many of the major issues of our time.

  Brian Williams

  Race, Class, Iraq

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