Planning Quotes - Page 34

• The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'

  David O. McKay

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Best Effort

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• I'm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn't think about the future.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Kids, Thinking, Giving

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• [With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Thinking, Goal, Algorithms

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• The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Successful, Luck, Looks

  Dashiell Hammett (2007). “The Dain Curse: The Glass Key ; and Selected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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• Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Government, People

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• The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

  Mark Levin

  Blame, Scorn, Industry

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• Government planning always involves compulsion.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Compulsion

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• Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

  Aristotle

  Art, Son, Plans

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• The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession.

  Horace Bushnell

  Cities, Age, Gunpowder

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• If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.

  Richard Ebeling

  Government, Liberty, Citizens

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• It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.

  Zainab Salbi

  Decision, Levels, Conflict

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Everything takes meticulous planning and nothing works out the way it's supposed to.

  Courtney Solomon

  Work Out, Way, Meticulous

  Source: collider.com

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• "Save more tomorrow" is a nudge to help people do what they know they want to do, which is save more, but they can't bring themselves to save more now. Just like many of us are planning to go on diets next month, or maybe in two months, certainly not tonight.

  Richard Thaler

  Two, People, Tonight

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Nannies, States, Activism

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• Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.

  Richard Ebeling

  Country, America, Socialist Countries

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• I loved journalism until the day my journalism teacher, a man I revered, came by my desk and said, 'Are you planning on going into journalism?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'I wouldn't.' I said, 'Well, why not?' He said, 'You can't make a living.'

  Ed Asner

  Teacher, Men, Why Not

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

  Brian Tracy

  Mean, Goal, Failing

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.12, Jaico Publishing House

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• Planning trip around the globe, that is in my room.

  Demetri Martin

  Rooms, Globes

  Twitter post from Aug 06, 2012

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• I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

  William Beveridge

  Plans

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• The more the planners, the worse the plans.

  Anthony Eden

  Plans, Planners

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• I have a question. Do you guys think it's OK to drink while you're pregnant if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?

  Chelsea Handler

  Baby, Thinking, Giving

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• They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Littles, Stuff, Strange

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.

  Chris Matthews

  Children, Eye, Long

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.

  Tina Modotti

  Expression, Gone, Want

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• Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.

  Dana Gould

  Stars, War, Simple

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 29, 2013

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