Quotes About Plans

Coaches have plans and structures, and if you're not in those plans you shouldn't take it personally.

There are few successful conspiracies, and human behavior is far better explained through incompetence, cowardice and inefficiency than through the suspicion of devilish plans.

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalaya Expedition

Nei, ingenting av dette var dårlige planer, synes jeg, og jeg merket at jeg virkelig klarte å beholde den lette stemningen dagen hadde sartet med, at jeg ikke falt ned i et av de hullene jeg med jevne mellomrom synker ned i, i disse hullene i livet som stadig vekk åpner seg der hvor jeg er og som gjør at jeg ikke klarer å være til stede i gleden som hele tiden ligger foran oss alle mennesker og ber oss om å delta i seg.

Nei, ingenting av dette var dårlige planer, synes jeg, og jeg merket at jeg virkelig klarte å beholde den lette stemningen dagen hadde startet med, at jeg ikke falt ned i et av de hullene jeg med jevne mellomrom synker ned i, i disse hullene i livet som stadig vekk åpner seg der hvor jeg er og som gjør at jeg ikke klarer å være til stede i gleden som hele tiden ligger foran oss alle mennesker og ber oss om å delta i seg.

If this is so powerful, then why don't all executives create clarity in their organizations? Because many of them overemphasize the value of flexibility. Wanting their organizations to be "nimble," they hesitate to articulate their direction clearly, or do so in a less than thorough manner, thus giving themselves the deceptively dangerous luxury of changing plans in midstream.

healthy organizations have a way of making themselves smarter. Even if their ideas are temporarily inferior to those of competitors, they are usually humble and efficient enough to recognize their deficiencies and make changes in their plans before it is too late.

Life, John Lennon famously said, is what happens to you while you're making other plans. Now that I think of it, Lennon, that wizard of words and music, probably wasn't the first. There's an old Yiddish proverb, "Man plans and God laughs." Probably every culture has a virtually identical aphorism.

All of us derive security and comfort from the imaginary world of memories and fantasies and plans. We really don't want to stay with the nakedness of our present experience

So few of our days contain actions that are irrevocable. Our lives are designed not to allow for anything irrevocable. The school part of our lives continues to be the school part for eighteen years, the work parts stay the work parts, and if we're lucky nothing disarranges them; the small inconsistencies get buried under talk, explanations, rescheduling. If everything couldn't continue as planned, no real plans could be made.

Plans are all right sometimes, I said. And sometimes just stirring things up is all right--if you're tough enough to survive, and keep your eyes open so you'll see what you want when it comes to the top.

Complaining is a sign that someone isn't willing to risk moving on a changeable situation, or won't consider the immutable circumstance in his or her plans.

To manage actionable things, you will need a list of projects, storage or files for project plans and materials, a calendar, a list of reminders of next actions, and a list of reminders of things you're waiting for.

ON HIS BED at the Residence Inn, Decker laid out all the construction plans for the American Grill that David Katz had built about fifteen years ago. The plans seemed pretty normal for such a restaurant buildout, but he didn't recognize the name of the architect set forth on the plans. In fact, the address of the business showed that it was from out of state

every plan breaks easily, Because the intention is a slave to memory At the moment of birth, it digs itself a grave, Like a fruit, that holds to a branch, while green. And when it matures, it falls itself from the three.

How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.

While he described his projects to me, I listened to him without being able to forget that he would not survive the week. What madness on his part to speek of the future, of his future! But once I had left, once I was outside, how to avoid thinking that after all, the difference was not so great between the mortal and the moribound? The absurdity of making plans is only a little more obvious in the second case.

Quanto a mim, estou +- O.K. Não consegui no entanto soltar minhas rédeas. Planos, programas, consciência, vigilância. O que vale é que misturada a tudo isso, está a vida que não pára.

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

It was morning through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work .

We caught a few courtiers speculating about assassinating the mortal queen. Their plans got blown up.' A small smile crosses her face. 'As did they.