#planning

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

#mice-men #planning #plans #unpredictability #men

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (To A Mouse) ↗

— Robert Burns

#fate #men #mice #planning #plans

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#business #development #energy #growth #inspirational-quotes

Remember, buying something is not the problem. The problem comes when we believe, for that moment, that the object we’re buying is going to make us happy. ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#money-management #prosperity #money

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#battle #found #i #indispensable #planning

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. ↗

— Mark Caine

#does #enable #everything #man #meticulous

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#another #attack #better #better job #certainly

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD. ↗

— George Duke

#course #different #i #material #new

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. ↗

— Bob Kane

#art #batman #city #i #i am

Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint? It’s not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called “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 we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin. ↗

— David Graeber

#blueprint #capitalism #centralization #planning #social-change