Poor Planning Quotes

• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

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• He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

  Emily Giffin

  Failing, Future Planning, Plans

  Emily Giffin (2012). “Where We Belong: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Proper preparation prevents poor performance.

  Charlie Batch

  Preparation, Performances, Poor Performance

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2013

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• Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

  Robert McNamara

  Reality, Shapes, Execution

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• Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Thinking

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• Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Planning is bringing the future into the present.

  Mike Vance

  Preparation, Time Management, Future Planning

  Mike Vance, Diane Deacon (1996). “Break Out of the Box”, Career PressInc

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• Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

  Gloria Steinem

  Class, Planning Ahead, Goal

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.272, Open Road Media

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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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• But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

  Carl Sagan

  Details Of Life, Atheism, Construction

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong?

  Holly Black

  Skills, Yesterday, Showing Up

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their entirety. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on insufficient investment; safety review for open source code is rarely funded, nor sustainable when it is. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on poor planning; wide deployment within critical functions but without any repair regime.

  Dan Geer

  Heart, Safety, Deployment

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• Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, Government, Vision

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