Planning Quotes - Page 16

• Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Agency, Government

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• If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Odds, Favors

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• Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.

  Mary Blakely

  Mean, Kids, Yale

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie”, Pocket

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• Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

  Frances Cornford

  Long, Unprepared

  'Youth' (1910) (on Rupert Brooke)

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• The structure is there, and will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

  Donald Curtis

  Patterns, Action, Structure

  "Your Thoughts Can Change Your Life".

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• When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was interested in making. I still do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but the reason I can move quickly is that I've done the background work first, which no one usually sees. I prepare myself thoroughly, and then when it is time to move ahead, I am ready to sprint.

  Donald Trump

  Work, Moving, People

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• I'm a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I don't like being swayed by anything that might be negative or damaging.

  Donald Trump

  Morning, Guy, Negative

  Donald Trump (2010). “Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life”, p.148, Vanguard Press

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• We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.

  George W. P. Hunt

  Chance, Force, Forces Of Nature

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• These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

  Jim Schwab

  Opportunity, Community, Decision

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• A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

  Richard Carson

  Different, Likes, Urban

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• The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Names, House

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• Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

  John Prebble

  Men, Engineering, Approval

  John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

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• By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

  Socrates

  Cities, Community, Urban

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• If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

  William J. Brennan

  Why Not, Urban, Constitution

  "Viewpoint: A Blow to Property Rights" by Bernard H. Siegan, reason.com. September 1984.

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• I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Zoologist, City Planning

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• A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Urban, Traffic, Thousand

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• A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Caring, Land, May

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• Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

  Robert McNamara

  Reality, Shapes, Poor Planning

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• Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

  George S. Patton

  Trying, Urban, Fit

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• Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

  Louis-Philippe I of France

  Urban, Habit, Walking

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• The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Crazy, Race, Cities

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• We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Design, Today

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• Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

  Dee Hock

  Heart, Practice, People

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• It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

  James M. Kouzes

  Common Purpose, People, Atmosphere

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2010). “The Leadership Challenge”, p.318, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Skills, Ideas, People

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