Sunday, April 1, 2018 – The Best Laid Plans
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley. An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, for promis’d joy! ~ Robert Burns, To a Mouse
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now. ~ Harry S Truman
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves. ~ Bertolt Brecht
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. ~ Alexander Hamilton
Who indeed, after pulling off the colored glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavors to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last. ~ Herbert Spencer
The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses. ~ Leon Trotsky
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. ~ Mikhail Bakunin
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold. ~ Herodotus
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Without a plan, there’s no attack. Without attack, no victory. ~ Curtis Armstrong
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit. ~ Mike Tyson
Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural. ~ Garth Ennis
I don’t have a moral plan, I’m a Canadian. ~ David Cronenberg
The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles. ~ Raheel Farooq
Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers. ~ Terry Pratchett
Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages. ~ Ken Follett
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~ Lao Tzu
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. ~ Napoleon Hill
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. ~ Alan Watts
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ~ John Steinbeck
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. ~ Victor Hugo
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality. ~ Ram Dass
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. ~ Gloria Steinem
If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. ~ Yogi Berra
If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there? ~ Steve Maraboli
Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance. ~ Alan Dean Foster
Never have a plan; it’ll just get in your way. ~ Marty Rubin
Success is when everything that goes wrong fits in your plan. ~ Gary Rudz
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ~ Henry David Thoreau
You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza. ~ Scott M. Gimple
Adventure is just bad planning. ~ Roald Amundsen
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. ~ Henry Rollins
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ~ Leonard Bernstein
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don’t know what it’s a plan for. ~ Fred Hoyle
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. ~ Pliny the Elder
Just Above Sunset 