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Planning Quotes
"I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up."
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"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible."
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"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
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"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."
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"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero."
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"I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point."
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"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
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"The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything."
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"Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks."
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"It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book."
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"Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life's endeavour."
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"Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive."
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"But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you."
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"Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning."
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"Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment."
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"Set realistic terms for its implementation."
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"Be specific about what you want. Decide, define, describe, discuss and develop your plans and then act on them."
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"In planning an attack, persons have various roles."
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"The importance of reviewing is apparent and proven. However, the majority of people do not do it in their own lives. Do you want to live your best life now? Take deliberate action and begin to REVIEW where you have been, where you are now, and where you would like to be."
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"Don't live your life in the future without any planned rewards for your effort and sacrifices today."
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"Build yourself a system to achieve your dreams."
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"All achievers had plans that they clearly listed or outlined and run to their fulfillment. If you want to make it as they did, you have to make a plan that defines your purpose; you must write out and clearly define who you are and who you want to be, what you have to do to be that person and how it will be done."
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"Where one does not do planning, it is all pure 'discharge'. 'Charge' occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it."
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"I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35."
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"The highest return on your investment of your time and energy comes from planning in advance."
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"Success starts with a good plan. To have it, you have to plan it."
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