Planning Quotes - Page 14

• I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

  Trevor Nunn

  Believe, Imagination, Management

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• I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

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• It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.

  R. B. Braithwaite

  Years, Amusement, Fifty

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• What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, People, Economic

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.213, Basic Books

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• What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Use, Answers

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.39, Macmillan

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• In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

  Brian Tracy

  Integrity, Caring, Numbers

  Brian TRACY (2009). “Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life”, p.75, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

  Steven Pressfield

  Foundation, Resistance, Months

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• What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Gains, Would Be, Needs

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Design, Hammers, Use

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• Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

  Crawford Greenewalt

  Motivational, Three, Execution

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• Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

  Robert Grudin

  Flaws, Made, Plans

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If it's planned, it's boring

  Freddie Mercury

  Boring, Ifs

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• Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?

  Esther Hicks

  Positive, Thinking, Appreciate

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• The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

  Laozi

  Agendas, Tao, Harmony

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• For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Moon, Journey, Firsts

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• I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Dream, Courage

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• 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Fighting, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

  Bliss Carman

  Writing, Miracle, Building

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• I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

  Ben Chandler

  Baseball, Player, Curveballs

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• Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

  Denis Waitley

  Asking Questions, Phones, Waiting

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• But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

  Jon Postel

  Home, People, Speed

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• I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

  Shannon Miller

  School, Law, Practice

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• I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Spring, School

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• Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

  Peter Thiel

  Long, World, Term

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.63, Crown Business

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• Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.

  Richard V. Allen

  Summer, Team, Years

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