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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Sep 10, 2025
Planning is bringing the future into the present.
My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Actors never discuss future plans.
He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
In the long run we are all dead.
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.
Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
The harder I work the more I live.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
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