A Quote by H. G. Wells
So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.
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CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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.
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.
The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.
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