Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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Clearly outline your plans, acknowledge God and he will direct them for you. If you can have it planned, you can achieve it; if you have it planned big, you will achieve it big. Make...

capitalism,” figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd...

You can’t plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police – preferably in writing.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a...

If you want a new tomorrow, then make new choices today.

Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that...

Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams.

Before job interviews, I think: What color tie best represents me as a person this company would be interested in?

You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. ‘Artist’s conceptions’ and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up...

We had a good time last semester and are planning even more for the fall.

Strategic planning is worthless – unless there is first a strategic vision.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

The 6 months leading to an ultra marathon are crucial in how you will do; Vision and mission planning are as important in whatever.

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

Whoever was in charge of planning was so detached from the realities of inner city life in New Orleans … that they couldn’t conceive of the notion that they couldn’t load up their SUVs, put...

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It’s the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect–but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness.

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

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

Adventure is just bad planning.

We are planning to buy Treasuries and the consumer price report reinforced our views that U.S. notes will rally. With the Fed likely to raise rates again, that will keep inflation well contained.

It’s a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don’t see what we’re meant to do.

We have lots of unions who are planning to strike, so, I mean, adults striking from their work. And that is so incredibly important to show that this is such an — this is not...

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

Keep your maximum focus on the present and a little planning ahead because without the present there is no future.

The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what’s there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it!

yes” to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them.

La planificación a largo plazo en un negocio es una fantasía, a no ser que tú seas una pitonisa

One step actually taken achieves more than a lifetime of planning.

When you’re about to be turned down, go for a postponement.

The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

You can’t predict the future, but you can plan for it

Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

The moment your dreams and your revelation take a special direction while your plans and actions take the opposite direction you commit yourself into a tight box for failure!

Planning is worrying, only in a productive, proactive form. Worry has to be a large element of planning, or else how could you project different possible scenarios, situations, outcomes, and probabilities, and then plot a...

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, ‘neighborhood’ is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or...

Whatever Peter wants, I am with him. He understands the complexities and subtleties of planning.

We made a lot of planning during the early period and now we are in a more demanding stage of implementing the plans. We need more talents and assistance to help us accomplish the whole...

When the fisherman bait the hooks, through them into the sea and sits looking at horizon, do not think he is doing nothing. He and all his senses are fully tensed. His eyes monitors the...

Progress is impossible without accurate planning.

It’s the fricking reality that destroys plans.