Planning Quotes - Page 35

• I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

  Patrick Stump

  Regret, Fall, Boys

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• Overcomers have a 'finishing' anointing. They don't merely start things. They keep on moving forward until they complete the task. Many people love to start new things. They like to be creative. They enjoy thinking of new projects and dreaming about new adventures. Often, these people actually start some of the new things they are planning for the future. The problem is that they seldom finish what they start.

  Barbara Wentroble

  Dream, Moving, Adventure

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• I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10.

  Diana DeGarmo

  Top 10, Persons, Contestants

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• Coalition [against ISIS] need the tools. And the tools involve encryption where we cannot hear what they're even planning. And when we see red flags, a father, a mother, a neighbor who says we have got a problem here, then we have to give law enforcement the ability to listen so they can disrupt these terrorist attacks before they occur.

  John Kasich

  Mother, Father, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Non-Islamic, non-foreign-motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many Americans on American soil as those who were promoted by jihadists. But what we have also seen is ISIL evolve, because of the sophistication of their social media, to a point where they may be inspiring more attacks - even if they're self-initiated, even if they don't involve complex planning - than we would have seen some time ago.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Self, Media

  "Video And Transcript: NPR's Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the person beforehand. The web makes this very easy.

  Peter Menzel

  Portraits, Essentials, Research

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• The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks about means, that is, the deliberate planning to achieve certain ends, and then says that as there are means there must be ends. Having, unperceived, placed the rabbit in the hat, he is able to bring it forth to the admiration of his audience.

  Chapman Cohen

  Mean, Rabbits, Able

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• If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Fantasy, Argument, Socialism

  "Giants Refreshed II: The Escape from Serfdom: Friedrich von Hayek and the Restoration of Liberty" in Times Literary Supplement ( p. 11), January 14, 2000.

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• It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution. The French writers who laid its foundation had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. The first of modern planners, Saint-Simon, predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be 'treated as cattle'.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Strong, Government, Practice

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• The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Errors, Strategy, Process

  "Competitive Strategy Research's Impact on Practice". Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, 2012.

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• No, there's no University for Wizards. At the moment I'm only planning to write seven Harry Potter books. I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Potters

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• We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Government, Bridges

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• I know that there are scores of people plotting to kill me, and this is not difficult to understand. After all, did we not seize power by plotting against our predecessors? However, I am far cleverer than they are. I know they are conspiring to kill me long before they actually start planning to do it. This enables me to get them before they have the faintest chance of striking at me.

  Saddam Hussein

  Long, People, Chance

  "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.

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• It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

  Jack Canfield

  People, Needs, Action

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• If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'

  Sean Covey

  Jobs, School, Dropping Out

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Luck is the residue of good planning.

  David Ignatius

  Luck, Everybody Loves Raymond, Good Planning

  David Ignatius (2008). “Body of Lies: A Novel”, p.272, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fringe, Radical, Spectrum

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• With Halloween coming this weekend, they say not one person in the country is planning to dress up as Governor Sarah Palin. You know why? ... The costume costs $150,000.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Halloween, Weekend

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• Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Useless, Process, Indispensable

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• Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Enemy, Waste, Wasting Time

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2014). “Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3)”, p.120, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

  Neil Oliver

  Luck, Millionaire, Plans

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?

  Lee Carroll

  Assuming, Problem, Linear

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Planning is like "pointing yourself" in the direction of a target...no more than that. Let your power then redefine the target, and re-point you in the correct direction. Think of it like this: An arrow is never going to hit the target unless it's in flight. If you sit around and wait for God to shoot the arrow, nothing is going to happen.

  Lee Carroll

  Thinking, Arrows, Waiting

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

  John Mulaney

  Noble, Comedy, Cases

  "Interview: Comedian John Mulaney". Interview with Katherine Coplen, www.nuvo.net. April 16, 2015.

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• Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.

  Jim Shepard

  Thinking, Way, Disaster

  Source: therumpus.net

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