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“In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.”

Cities Limits Planning Fixed City Planning

“Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.”

Reading Speak Fool Silent Planning Retreat Strategic Speaks Out Strategic Planning

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.”

Essentials Intelligent Riches Planning Undertakings

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place - people talk about gerrymandering and the money that's in politics, this is a real thing, a real effect - and it's hard for climate change-denying legislators to get voted out. But I predict it will happen.”

People Real Hard Happens Effects Concerned Vote Climate Climate Change Planning Candidates Addresses Voters Real Things Legislators Millennials Gerrymandering

Author:Bill Nye

“When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so I feel like we appreciate it all the more to have all this good fortune come our way, which we hadn't really been planning.”

Way Feels Kind Crazy Ambition Lows Expectations Appreciate Fortune Planning Good Fortune Always Happy

Author:Ty Burrell

“The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.”

May Persons Taken Bottom Planning Monotonous Dreary

Book:The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

Source: The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

“Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!”

Cases Adventure Planning

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.”

Purpose Company Gains Edges Planning Over It Sole Competitors Strategic Strategic Planning Business Plan

Author:Kenichi Ohmae

“With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.”

Adventure Planning Sufficient Expeditions

Author:Roald Amundsen

“Planning is bringing the future into the present.”

Plans Planning Preparation Time Management Future Plans Future Planning Preparation And Planning Poor Planning Preparation For The Future

Book:Break Out of the Box

Source: Break Out of the Box

“I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial. Let the record show no hands went up. Second, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you're planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show no hands went up.”

Ifs Shows Hands Three Asks Records Raises Sells Planning Executives Flew Jet

Author:Brad Sherman

“Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.”

Results Planning Representation Selection Succession

Author:Peter Drucker

“Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.”

Way Economy Dangerous Horse Planning Islands Urges Assets Pollution Magnificent Delightful Expanding Airports Constructive Toronto Downtown Smog Trojans Trojan Horse

Author:Jane Jacobs

“Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?”

Thinking Knows Lasts Planning Right Road

Author:Vernon Howard

“Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better be surprised every day, or it's going to be stale.”

Years Fun Surprise Planning Stale

Author:Richard Shepard

“Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.”

Reason Political Humanity Military Conscious Campaigns Planning Outcomes Right Thing Productive Typical Doing The Right Thing Misguided Wrong Reasons

Book:Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity

Source: Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity

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

Men Life Should Facts Dream Hours Planning Small Dreams Active Life Fruitful Life Future Dreams Man Of My Dreams

Author:Victor Hugo

“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”

Time Morning Plans Busy Guides Planning Carrie Time Management Thread Every Morning Transactions Labyrinth Busy Life Start The Day

Author:Victor Hugo

“Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds?”

Wells Dies Given Particular Bird Concern Remains Planning Funeral Disciple Arrangements Worms Splendid Ants Crow Kites Paraphrased

Author:Zhuangzi

“Life happens whilst you're planning other things.”

Happens Planning Life Happens

Author:John Lennon

“Success is the residue of planning.”

Planning

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.”

Want Fun My Own Yoga Property Studios Planning Construction

Author:Nina Dobrev

“All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.”

Decision Taken Conscious Fruit Planning Very Happy

Author:Imtiaz Ali

“Always begin with the end in mind.”

“I'm spending a lot of time in the Palazzo and in the museums. I'm printing [pictures that I take] and making a binder with a mix of internet research and palazzo research that I'm planning to use for the upcoming works.”

Use Internet Research Spending Planning Museums Printing Binders

Author:Camille Henrot

“I was doing experimental theater and experimental film in San Francisco, and I moved to Los Angeles, and what I got frustrated with was, it seemed like everyone was waiting for something to happen. Obviously, films take a lot of planning, and I wanted something more immediate, and comedy started to become that.”

Happens Wanted Film Waiting Comedy Theater Moved Planning Los Angeles Frustrated San Francisco Waiting For Something

Author:Amy Seimetz

“Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.”

Knows Want Years Lasts Pleasure Know How Plans Failing Minutes Dog Fool Twenties Supreme Planning Cunning Last Minute

Author:Wallace Stegner

“The first fifteen minutes of your day should be spent planning your day. Set specific goals as to what you will accomplish. These clear goals will give you focal points on which you can govern your actions and provide your with a template you can live your day from.”

Giving Should Firsts Action Goal Clear Minutes Accomplish Planning Fifteen Focal Point Clear Goals Specific Goals

Author:Robin Sharma

“You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity.”

People Years Moments Guy Unity Mere Billions Planning Preparation Pounds Lifting

Author:Jacque Fresco

“I finished high school, so now I'm planning to take a few classes in college when I'm not working.”

School Class College High School Finished Planning

Author:Megan Lee

“Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the way that works for your particular tale. The most important issue is to keep on trying until you get it right.”

Way Trying Important Stories Fall Issues Particular Creating Planning Tales Important Issues

Author:Nancy Lam

“Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole.”

Whole Jobs Moral Car Planning Buying Conventional Traps Casting Compass Mold Ballots Conventional Wisdom Advertisers Define You Moral Compass Zealot Buying A Car

Author:Denis Hayes

“Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.”

Thinking Looks Problem Failing Solutions Marketing Planning Finance Etc Ceo Strategic Strategic Planning

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.”

Running Winning Effort Race Practice Products Losing Performances Planning Preparation Win Or Lose

Book:Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)

Source: Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)

“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.'”

World Way Giving May Hard Used Values Force Effort Sacrifice Hard Work Planning Setting Traditional Settings Our Family Subtle Assault Family Values Best Effort Traditional Family

Author:David O. McKay

“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.”

Thinking Knows Giving Kids Wealth Bird Planning Pushing Nests

Author:Kevin O'Leary

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

Thinking Way Goal Planning New Ways Algorithms

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

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

Looks Successful Luck Planning Outcomes Sap

Book:The Dain Curse: The Glass Key ; and Selected Stories

Source: The Dain Curse: The Glass Key ; and Selected Stories

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

People Mean Government Plans Planning Riding Central Planning

Author:Thomas Sowell

“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.”

Industry Consequence Blame Planning Scorn Dislocation Central Planning

Author:Mark Levin

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

Art Plans Streets Son Planning Native

Author:Aristotle

“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.”

World Want Use Age Cities Gone Conditions Built Profession Planning Adopted New Age Ornaments Railroads Old World Gunpowder City Planning Times Gone By

Author:Horace Bushnell

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

Ifs Government Liberty Citizens Victim Planning Regulation Plunder

Author:Richard Ebeling

“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.”

Decision Levels Easier Conflict Planning Posts Decision Making Peace Talks

Author:Zainab Salbi

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

Way Work Out Planning Meticulous Things Work Out

Author:Courtney Solomon

“"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.”

People Knows Want Two Helping Next Months Goes On Tomorrow Planning Diets Tonight Two Months Nudge

Author:Richard Thaler

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

States Activism Planning Elites Possessed Judicial Nannies More Knowledge Central Planning Judicial Activism

Author:Thomas Sowell

“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.”

“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.'”

Men Wells Said Teacher Yeah Planning Journalism Why Not Desks

Author:Ed Asner

“Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.”

Way Important Done Party Capable Dinner Planning Host Hospitality Dinner Party

Author:Ted Allen

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