Top 1200 Future Plans Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I'm not somebody who plans my life. In fact, I don't know what's going to happen here in India, it's such a strange climate here at the moment. So very worrying.

After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of the future condition of our kind we must look, not to the wealth or the genius of the coming generations, but to the quality of the disciplines and attitudes that we are preparing now for their use.

I'm continuing to do what I have always done, which is minister to people with the ultimate goal of fulfilling God's plans for my life and ministry.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.

I can never say that I will never return to musical theatre. There may be a part in the future that I really want to do. I love plays as well. I am very open to ideas. I hope to do many things in the future.

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

Childhood is usually identified with fantasy, adventure, and dreaming. But mine didn't offer a lot of hope. I could read my future in my palm. Everything foretold: "You have no future!" A person must be very strong to keep going without hope.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

I'm especially concerned about the future of this country, because I'm concerned about the gay people of the future. We need to ensure their good life by registering to vote.

For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were actively building. I remember reading Sterling's Islands in the Net and suddenly understanding the disruptive potential of technology once it got out into the street. Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn't the future 15 minutes out - it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.

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.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

Perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them. Ha! A small matter.

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

For Russians in the '90s, there was that sense of not knowing what the future held at all. And coming off a long period of when people actually were robbed of the ability to plan their future - that's very much a part of totalitarian control - that exacerbated it. In this country, we are not coming off a long period like that. But I think that for a lot of Americans, as a result of globalization, as a result of the housing crisis, the future is just too uncertain. And their place in the world is too uncertain.

Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens.

No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense.

Donald Trump would send us back into recession with his tax plans that benefit the wealthiest of Americans.

When you're getting on plans and traveling all over the place, it can be very hard to keep yourself healthy and avoid catching a cold.

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

I'm supporting plans in Congress to fully ban bump stock devices and prohibit the sale of high-capacity magazines.

You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data.

The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show.

My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.

Even with all its political bells and whistles, the Obamacare plans increasingly resemble Medicaid in terms of networks and drug lists.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.

Illinoisans know that we need to protect our environment, to invest in our future, to make sure that our children have clean air, fresh water, and a good, healthy future.

People look at the future and see a black hole. They look at climate change and see an ecological crisis. They look at their leaders corrupted by money and see a political crisis. They wonder if they'll ever be able to pay off their student loan or own a house. Given this ecological, political and financial crisis, what they want is a different future. Their fundamental demand is a different regime to provide that future.

Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.

Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

My personal trainer suggested paleo to build muscle while staying lean, and it's one of the first plans that's worked for me.

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead.

If, as statistics suggest, millennials' diets are more plant-based than ever, and we continue to bring up our kids to eat less or no meat, the future could be bright - the future could be vegan.

I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week.