Plan Quotes - page 3

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. (Václav Havel)
A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. View quote
John Steinbeck
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. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. View quote
Sarah Palin
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. View quote
William Wordsworth
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
You can always change your plan, but only if you have one.. View quote
Randy Pausch
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead. View quote
Luis Buñuel
I have no plans, and no plans to plan. View quote
Mario Cuomo
Most of people talk, we do things. They plan, we achieve. They hesitate, we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that. (Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum)
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. View quote
Jim Rohn
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Arrangement includes the putting of things in their proper places and the elegance of effect which is due to adjustments appropriate to the character of the work. Its forms of expression are these: ground plan, elevation, and perspective. ...All three come of reflexion and invention. View quote
Vitruvius
Reflexion is careful and laborious thought, and watchful attention directed to the agreeable effect of one's plan. Invention, on the other hand, is the solving of intricate problems and the discovery of new principles by means of brilliancy and versatility. View quote
Vitruvius
I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win. View quote
Mark Spitz
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies. View quote
Melinda Gates
... the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us. View quote
Melody Beattie
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. (Augusten Burroughs)
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. View quote
Peter Arnett
If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. View quote
Peter Straub
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan. View quote
Paul J. Meyer
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. View quote
Thomas Reid
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