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All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and virgin thoughts…planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion.

A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

At times I ask myself if I shouldnt be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

Be candid with everyone.

Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

CBS is planning a tribute to Dan Rather... the memo went out a month ago but everyone assumed it was a fake.

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.

Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Disappointment requires adequate planning.

Don't get locked up into the ultimate goal. Just concentrate on the next step.

Don't plan with what is in your pocket; plan with what is in God's pocket

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew Brzezinski observed, it would provide the US with "critical leverage" of its European and Asian rivals, a conception with roots in early post-war planning. These are substantial reasons for aggression - not unlike those of the British when they invaded and occupied Iraq over 80 years earlier, at the dawn of the oil age.

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

Everything takes meticulous planning and nothing works out the way it's supposed to.

Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better be surprised every day, or it's going to be stale.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.