I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.
Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride.
We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan.
Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.
If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.
I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage. . . I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
A lot of people plan for failure, but they don't plan for success, and that's a big problem, especially in the TV world 'cause you're trying to find out what your show is.
I want to make college debt-free and for families making less than $125,000, you will not get a tuition bill from a public college or university if the plan that I worked on with Bernie Sanders is enacted.
So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens. ' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.
I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
If you want the perfect plan that God has for your life, you will have to go by way of Calvary to get it.
I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds of ways to get where you want to go. Because we didn't plan it. We just did it.
The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.
. . . an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
Mike Pence did ask this question about debt and the debt explosion on the [Donald] Trump plan is much, much bigger than anything on the [Hillary] Clinton side.
Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.
All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for. . . There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.