Plan Quotes - page 6

If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification: I see the motif, the way I painted it, is somehow ugly or unbearable. Then I try to follow my feelings and make it attractive. And that means a process of painting, changing or destroying – for however long it takes – until I think it has improved. And I don't demand an explanation from myself as to why this is so. (Gerhard Richter)
One could describe Design as a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose. View quote
Charles Eames
He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad. View quote
Diodorus Siculus
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan. View quote
Arno Allan Penzias
George Orwell once wrote: "And it's not a matter of whether the war is not real or if it is. Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact." View quote
Michael Moore
If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. View quote
Frank Gehry
Definition of design = Everyone designs who devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artifacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state. View quote
Herbert Simon
At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries. View quote
Dolph Lundgren
We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition. View quote
Ivan Konev
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. View quote
Alexis Carrel
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death. View quote
Henry Miller
I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened. View quote
Wesley Snipes
When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow... View quote
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach. View quote
Emil Cioran
American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace. View quote
Al Gore
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow. View quote
Steven Wright
You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me. View quote
Steve Jobs
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. View quote
Paul Valéry
The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that kind are tainted with ponderousness. Nietzsche wrote "with his blood,” and criticizing, or, better, experiencing him means pouring out one's lifeblood. ... It was only with my life that I wrote the Nietzsche book that I had planned. (Georges Bataille)
And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making. View quote
Jacque Fresco
If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long. View quote
Roger Ebert
I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production and distribution can be tackled only along socialistic lines. The Very first thing that our future national government will have to do is to set up a commission for drawing up a comprehensive plan for reconstruction. View quote
Subhas Chandra Bose