“It is perfectly true that neither you nor I can hope to set up a program for activity which is at all likely to be feasible ten or twenty thousand years from now. But it is also true that unless we habitually feel our activity and decisions to be somehow involved in the long-range future, just as we…”— Walter Ong, amazon.com
“Cities, by virtue of their very complexity, can be particularly vulnerable to the law of unintended consequences.”— John Lorinc, thebaffler.com
“Nature loves courage. If you don't have a plan, you become part of someone else's plan.”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“He might disappear up his own ass sometimes, but he sure does know how to plan a holiday.”— Mike Bullen, Jenny Gifford, Fay Ripley, imdb.com
“Rita: This day was perfect. You couldn't have planned a day like this. Phil: Well, you can. It just takes an awful lot of work.”— Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis, Phil Connors, Bill Murray, imdb.com
“Lilly Chambler: Where should we go? The Governor: Wherever they let us. There's no use making a plan.”— Nichole Beattie, The Governor, David Morrissey, imdb.com
“[in voiceover] And that's when we started to plan the murder. What to wear, what to bring. In murder, as in life, planning is everything.”— Debra Frank, Carl Sautter, David Addison Jr., Bruce Willis, imdb.com
“You can't just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.”— Chris Harris, Lily Aldrin, Alyson Hannigan, imdb.com
“Look, you can’t design your life like a building. It doesn’t work that way. You just have to live it…and it’ll design itself.”— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Lily Aldrin, Alyson Hannigan, imdb.com
“Creativity has boundaries. Set some clear boundaries to be creative within them. An easy one is time . . . What are you going to do today? And what are you going to achieve in the time blocks within the day? It’s the most productive way. If you don’t plan you’ll probably do nothing.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.”— Charles F. Stanley, amazon.com
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”— Alan Turing, csee.umbc.edu
“A person who has not secured a place on the floor should not begin to look for a mat.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“I have been preparing for the future, analyzing my previous job, taking the positives from it and looking at the mistakes, so I am ready for the next challenge.”— Rafael Benitez, fourfourtwo.com
“The key to producing daily is really keeping to a rhythm. People think they don't have time to make artwork, but if you carve out a little chunk of time every day and just do something, you'll find it much easier to produce.”— Matt Maldre, gapersblock.com
“I don’t look to the future, I have no idea. Right now I’m not going to think about it. I enjoy what I do every day, playing every weekend…and my head’s focused on that. When the time comes, I will see where I am standing or what I am going to do.”— Lionel Messi, everythingbarca.com