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Quotes About Plans

Why must the gate be narrow? Because you cannot pass beyond it burdened. To come into the woods you must leave behind the six day's world, all of it, all of its plans and hopes. You must come without weapon or tool, alone, expecting nothing, remembering nothing, into the ease of sight, the brotherhood of eye and leaf.
~ Wendell Berry
voice even and his expression neutral. He didn't want to declare his sentiments until he had heard Harrison out. 'When he came to power, President Taffari sent for this woman. She was working in the forest at the time. He explained to her his plans for the advancement and development
~ Wilbur Smith
I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans
~ William Gibson
I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans - Wintermute
~ William Gibson
Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be drawn into that current, and that which at first was but a tiny rivulet, will thus be swelled into a mighty, majestic stream.
~ Christian D. Larson
of plans and hasty departure.
~ Helen MacInnes
At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Any candidate should put forward a vision and plans that really show how we can move with urgency.
~ Michelle Wu
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.
~ Gary Wolf
Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
~ Laura Bush
The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'
~ George Packer
some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God.
~ Janette Oke
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
~ Jean Cocteau
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.
~ Mike Rogers
If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.
~ Mary Lou Williams
Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.
~ Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.
~ Steve Pavlina
If your dream dies, dream another one. If things don't work out the way you've planned, God has a better plan for you.
~ Joel Osteen
I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.
~ Ziggy Marley
Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.
~ Vinod Khosla
My new year's resolution is to stop making five-year plans. I stress over where I'm going to be in five years so often.
~ Lzzy Hale
I think it's less stressful to just make decisions as you go, because plans never work out, but you never run out of dreams. You have an eternal bucket list where you keep crossing things off, and keep adding things to the bottom.
~ Lzzy Hale
I suddenly received a call from my agent offering me the chance to do 'Strictly' and I had to make the decision within an hour or two. I was doing a different job towards the end of the year so I had to change my plans, but it was a no-brainer.
~ Kelvin Fletcher
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
~ Bea Arthur