#planning

If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there? ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#journey #motivational #planning #success #life

I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ... Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#freebies #planning #president #reading #reading-lists

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#countries #east #energy #hope #i

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#everybody #expected #fully #hectic #him

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#contest #elections #i #i am #october

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#else #make #money #nothing #only

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#block #chapter #complete #enough #i

We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#alerts #ample #assume #attack #cannot

When did having a life become an event you had to schedule? ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#ginger #highlander #jessi #karen-marie-moning #life

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#business #chosen #country #even #fight