Planning Quotes - Page 13

I still wonder if the United States realizes how much planning went into this. When we talk about "mindless terrorists," we are lying to ourselves.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.

Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better be surprised every day, or it's going to be stale.

But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.

You planning top kill me with a Wiffle bat?" [Carson asked] "Yeah." "Why?" he asked. The bat was shaking in my tight grip. "Because I don't have my Minnie Mouse pillow.

Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.

Just who are you planning to call? Ghostbusters?

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew Brzezinski observed, it would provide the US with "critical leverage" of its European and Asian rivals, a conception with roots in early post-war planning. These are substantial reasons for aggression - not unlike those of the British when they invaded and occupied Iraq over 80 years earlier, at the dawn of the oil age.

Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise in sea level by barring state and local agencies from developing regulations or planning documents to address the problem, Colbert responded: "This is a brilliant solution. If your science gives you a result that you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved."

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

Indefinite plans get dubious results.

It is impossible for the nation to develop unless states develop, the process of policy planning also has to change from 'top to bottom' to 'bottom to top

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

I'm not running, I'm not planning on running, and I've got nothing new on that story.

Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

At times I ask myself if I shouldnt be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.