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• Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

  John Searle

  Animal, Ideas, Achievement

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• The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Needs, Purpose, Economics

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• We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

  Carl Menger

  Welfare, Appearance, Economics

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• As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Retirement, Successful

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• When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Dream, Time

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• Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Success, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 16, 2014

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• If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Philosophy, Believe, People

  Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (2013). “Fascism versus Capitalism”, p.79, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises - whether real or not - is expected to lead to - compliance

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Real, Independent, World Government

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• Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.

  Al Gore

  Children, Cutting, Growth

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• Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivation, Goal, Causes

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• ...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Life, God, Running

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• The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law, imply intelligent planning and purpose. Nothing happens of itself. Nowhere, in the age-old experience of man, has continued order been found except as the product of intelligent direction.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Intelligent, Men, Order

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• If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.

  Zig Ziglar

  Goal, Mind Your Own Business, Dreamer

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.165, Pelican Publishing

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• The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Best Laid Plans, Mice

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• Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Causes, Action

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• In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that?

  Roy H. Williams

  Prayer, Writing, Boys

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• Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way

  Terry Leahy

  Business, Past, Thinking

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• Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Time, Discovery, Perfect

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• Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Joy, Spontaneity, Existence

  Alan Dean Foster (1982). “Nor crystal tears”, Del Rey

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• Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).

  Janet Napolitano

  Christmas, Technology, Deployment

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• Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

  Peter Drucker

  Project Management, Plans, Invaluable

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• The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Children, Years

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• Is the leadership of the worldwide church in the hands of men and women who know how to lead others one by one to Jesus Christ? We are so concerned with planning and administration that there is a danger lest we allow these things to serve as an excuse for not doing the one thing on which all else depends.

  Stephen Neill

  Leadership, Jesus, Men

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• Proper preparation prevents poor performance.

  Charlie Batch

  Preparation, Poor Planning, Performances

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2013

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