Top 1200 Contingency Plans Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.

I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

Being transparent about our plans enables us to get better feedback.

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

I think God has plans for everyone, and I'm just thankful this is his plan for me.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.

If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

Before starting a building project, it is wise to discuss your plans in full with the neighbours.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

I wanted to be a designer but I guess destiny had other plans for me and I became an actor.

Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

I'm not a man with many plans, but offers come in and I think this one or that one will be really interesting, so I say yes.

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

My plans are to avenge my loss against Volkan Oezdemir and get the UFC title.

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.

My favorite saying is, 'If you want to make god laugh, tell him about your plans.'

Although there are many plans in a loving heart,but only God’s will is sufficiently established.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.

Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

You had to have a great voice or talent as a musician before imaging or marketing plans came into play.

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it.

In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.

Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you

McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The middle section of Atonement, the two vividly realized set pieces of Robbie's trek to the Channel and Briony's experiences with the wounded evacuees of Dunkirk, would alone have made an outstanding novel…. There is wonderful writing throughout as McEwan weaves his many themes — the accidents of contingency, the sins of absent fathers, class oppression — into his narrative, and in a magical love scene.

Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America.

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

State intentions every day. Create action plans to achieve your intention.