Plan Quotes

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.

So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Then I want to beat Anthony Davis' shot-block record, and I want to win National Player of the Year. I definitely plan to put the work in to accomplish those goals.

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it 'till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still his plan.

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.

In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.

You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.