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  It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

  W. Clement Stone

  Time, Destiny, Thinking

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• A good system shortens the road to the goal.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Goal, Orderliness

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• Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

  Richard I. Winwood

  Process, Plans, Ifs

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• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  Patrick Henry

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Wedding

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 01, 2014

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• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Work, Cutting

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

  Arnold Bennett

  Time, Way, Needs

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• To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

  Joseph Conrad

  Enlightenment, Literature, Path

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1325, e-artnow

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• I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Hope, Hoping For The Best

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1833). “The Wondrous Tale of Alroy: The Rise of Iskander”, p.61

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• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Inspiration, Writing, Talking

  E. L. Doctorow, Christopher D. Morris (1999). “Conversations with E.L. Doctorow”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Dream, Men

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• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Depression, Fun, Business

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• Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

  Robert Collier

  Mold, World, Shapes

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Planning to write is not writing.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Writing

  E. L. Doctorow, Christopher D. Morris (1999). “Conversations with E.L. Doctorow”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• . . . it is interesting to note that the original problem that started my research is still outstanding - namely the problem of planning or scheduling dynamically over time, particularly planning dynamically under uncertainty. If such a problem could be successfully solved it could eventually through better planning contribute to the well-being and stability of the world.

  George Dantzig

  Time, Art, Interesting

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• When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.

  Alan A. Altshuler

  Mean, Goal, Speak

  Alan A. Altshuler (1961). “The process of planning in two American cities”

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• As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties. If anyone thinks that the mesh of a net is an independent, isolated thing, he is mistaken. It is called a net because it is made up of a series of interconnected meshes, and each mesh has its place and responsibility in relation to other meshes.

  Gautama Buddha

  Independent, Responsibility, Thinking

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• A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

  Alexander Cairncross

  Trends, Force, Courses

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• Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

  Francis Cornford

  Time, Done, Firsts

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• Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

  Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria

  Water, Toes, Beats

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• There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.

  Peter Chernin

  Plans, Guts, Business Plan

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• Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.

  Shona Brown

  Timing, Plans, Managers

  "Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos". Book by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Shona Brown, 1998.

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