Planning Things Quotes

• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Future, Entrepreneur

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• If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Business, Young Entrepreneurs

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  It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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  Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

  Alan Lakein

  Leadership, Military, Future

  "The Importance of Planning Ahead" by Karen Trepte, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2017.

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• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

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• Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

  Daniel Burnham

  Motivational, Leadership, Dream

  Quoted in Collier's, 6 July 1912

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

  Stephen Brennan

  Inspirational, Business, Will And Determination

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Purpose, Planning, Sensible

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• I'm very structured. I like planning things out. I get frustrated when they don't go according to plan.

  Tia Mowry

  Frustrated, Planning, Plans

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• I followed [Shoji] Hamada, because I guess Alix [MacKenzie] and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Pieces, Paper, Able

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Summer, School, Holiday

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

  Naomi Watts

  Mirrors, Looks, Growing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My friends joke that I love planning things - which I do - and the reason is because there's so much I want to do, so many things I want to see and experience. If I don't actively pursue these things, I will never do everything I want to do, in life and in my career. That's what gets me up in the morning.

  Benjamin Stone

  Morning, Careers, Want

  "Benjamin Stone | Interview by Ocean Pleasant, Youth Editor". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I really do like surprises. I'm not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se, but yeah I'm very much a spontaneous guy and it's sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.

  Adam Young

  Guy, Tasks, Schedules

  Interview with Jonas City, www.fanpop.com. 2017.

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