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Plans & Planning

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
gang aft a-gley.--Robert Burns ("To a Mouse")
[Popularly misquoted as: The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray, or The best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray.]
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.--Barbara G. Harrison
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine, Sept. 16, 2003)
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.--Howard Duff
Make big plans, but change your plans as time changes.--Marchant
Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood.--D.B. Hudson
No plan originated by another will be as sympathetically handled as ones own plan.--Conrad H. Lanza (Napoleon and Modern Warfare)
Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.--Confucius
Plans get you into things but you must work your way out.--Will Rogers
Strategic planning is worthless--unless there is first a strategic vision.--John Naisbitt (Megatrends)
There is enough time for everything in the course of a day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.--Lord Chesterfield (Letters to His Son, April 14, 1747)
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.--Napoleon Hill, American Author, Speaker, Motivational Writer