Planning Quotes - Page 28

• it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Taken, Loss, Preparation

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The only thing I want from my money is to die in comfort.

  Catherine Cookson

  Money, Comfort, Want

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• Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Design, Done

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• Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.

  Mimi Pond

  Years, Would Be, Remember

  Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

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• Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.

  Mimi Pond

  Thinking, Age, May

  Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

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• The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.

  Emily Carr

  Beach, Waiting, Laziness

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.247, D & M Publishers

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• The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Dimensions, Serious, Assuming

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• hindsight is not a strategy.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Strategy, Hindsight

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• I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

  Delia Ephron

  Giving Up, Worry, Want

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, President, United States

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• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  Nan Hayworth

  Smart, Commitment, Honor

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• Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Mother, Wife, Special

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• The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.

  Riane Eisler

  Leader, Movement, Care

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• When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.

  Ali Vincent

  Fall, Health, Clothes

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.144, Rodale

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• I am planning the release of 2NE1's new album for after CL finishes her solo activities. 2NE1 will surely show you good work until the expiration of their contracts.

  Yang Hyun-suk

  Albums, Good Work, Contracts

  "YG Shares His Thoughts on BIGBANG and 2NE1’s Contracts Expiring Next Year". TV Report Interview, www.soompi.com. April 26, 2015.

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• You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Running, Trying, Wizardry

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues that relate to women's health, there's an assault on that in the Congress.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Women's Health

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

  Hugh Hefner

  Mother, Thinking, Numbers

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new limbs to do what it needs to do. So there's very little planning. There's a little planning where I say, "Well, it looks like I'm going in this direction, ok, good." But there's very little forethought or intellectual justification: "Oh, look, I'm putting in a theme park because that represents dystopian America!"

  George Saunders

  America, Long, Intellectual

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It was so soon after I'd had my son and I really wasn't planning on going back to work for a while. I will walk over hot coals to work with Bill Condon on anything, the experience that you have with him is just too good... I've certainly never worked with him before so the trio of Bill [Codon], Ian [McKellen], and Sherlock Holmes, and England: it was too much to say "no" to.

  Laura Linney

  Son, Hot, Coal

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said: "You are one brave young man." And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.

  Mart Laar

  Eye, Reality, Men

  Interview with Stephen J. Dubner at "'Freakonomics Radio" podcast, March 24, 2010.

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• My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would happen, but I didn't plan it. You know, honestly, I think if there's a little too much planning, it's almost just like self-sabotage. Because then, you want it to go a certain way and it just doesn't. And then you're like, 'Awww, why!?!'

  Tyler Blackburn

  Girlfriend, Party, Kissing

  "Exclusive Interview: PLL's Tyler Blackburn". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. February 22, 2011.

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• Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Retirement, America, Space

  "Why We Should Keep Flying the Space Shuttle" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

  Samuel Johnson

  Visionaries, Amusement, Calm

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.226, Yale University Press

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