Planning Quotes - Page 32

• The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Dog, Nice

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• I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Mother, Home

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• Even though plans themselves are worthless, the exercise of planning is very valuable and totally missing in most startups today.

  Sam Altman

  Exercise, Missing, Today

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• I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Moving, Government, Way

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an annual operating plan; and somehow you've got to do succession and people planning.

  Noel Tichy

  People, Three, Needs

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Political Will, May

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• I've always been fortunate in that I'm quite good at what I do, but there have been many people who have made it to the high level and they weren't necessarily the fastest runner in their class at school. Concentrate on yourself. It's down to planning, preparation and being dedicated.

  Jenny Meadows

  School, Class, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic. They invest their students in working harder than they ever have to reach that vision, maximise their classroom time in a goal-oriented manner through purposeful planning and effective execution, reflect constantly on their progress to improve their performance over time, and do whatever it takes to overcome the many challenges they face.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, Believe, Successful

  "Eight questions for Wendy Kopp". "Democracy in America", www.economist.com. April 3, 2010.

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• A major institutional reform is the move away from merely planning, to transforming India. The setting up of NITI Aayog, is a step in this direction.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Steps, India

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• A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one that caters to the aspirations of 21st century India.

  Narendra Modi

  Thinking, Design, Soul

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• I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, England, Colorado

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Careers, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

  David J. Schwartz

  Good Luck, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

  Jean Paul

  Way, Ends, Made

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• Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

  David J. Schwartz

  Dream, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

  David J. Schwartz (1987). “The Magic of Getting What You Want”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

  Joe Hill

  Giving Up, Attitude, Talking

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• Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.

  James Caan

  Motivational, Business, Persistence

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• Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.

  Paul Goodman

  Intelligent, Jail, Top Down

  Paul Goodman (1967). “Like a conquered province: the moral ambiguity of America”

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• Don't get locked up into the ultimate goal. Just concentrate on the next step.

  Robert Anthony

  Goal, Next Steps, Locked Up

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.69, Morgan James Publishing

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• The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

  Ted Turner

  People, Trying, Serious

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• A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

  Ryan White

  Thinking, My Time

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• Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can't print it.

  James Grant

  Money, Nice, Mean

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• Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

  Richard Rogers

  Cities, City Planning, Architecture

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• Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

  Robert Hughes

  Mistake, Hands, Cities

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