“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

— Leo Tolstoy , book Anna Karenina

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Russian writer 1828–1910

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Maxim 319
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

“A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”

John Steinbeck book The Pearl

Source: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III

“It is not reasonable for each government to come with a new plan every five years, and disregard previous programmes, particularly as no government will ever have the time, during a single mandate, to fully implement its project.”

Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963) King of Morocco

Original French: En effet, il n'est pas raisonnable que tous les cinq ans, chaque nouveau gouvernement arrive avec un nouveau plan, faisant l'impasse sur les plans antérieurs, alors qu'il ne pourra pas exécuter le sien intégralement, au vu de la courte durée de son mandat.
Televised Speech 20 August 2013 http://www.maroc.ma/en/royal-speeches/speech-his-majesty-king-nation-occasion-60th-anniversary-revolution-king-and-people

“That physical tingle, that powerful audible experience(not with poets projecting their work to an audience) but more intimate, less planned than that.”

Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.

The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz

“Project management is the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of company resources for a relatively short-term objective that has been established to complete specific goals and objectives. Furthermore, project management utilises the systems approach to management by having functional personnel (the vertical hierarchy) assigned to a specific project”

Harold Kerzner (1940) American engineer, management consultant

the horizontal hierarchy
Source: Project management for executives (1982), p. 3

“The business of financing is in a poor way. There is no plan found, or scheme digested, for mending our money. There are a thousand projects on foot; but none appears to be taken up on a practical footing.”

Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) American general in the American Revolutionary War

Letter to George Washington (24 April 1779)

“I’m not very cautious or careful. It’s always been more about having a variety of experiences than any planned trajectory… I think that in a way, projects choose you.”

Cate Blanchett (1969) Australian actress

Cate Blanchett takes on Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Monsters and Critics, 6 February 2013 http://www.monstersandcritics.com/cate-blanchett-takes-on-blanche-dubois-in-a-streetcar-named-desire/,

“I do not yet know God's plan, but I hope that his grace will accompany me to carry out the project for which God has chosen and called me.”

Khalid Rehmat (1968) Pakistani Catholic apostolic vicariate

The new Vicar Apostolic of Quetta places his office under the protection of Our Lady http://www.fides.org/en/news/69326-ASIA_PAKISTAN_The_new_Vicar_Apostolic_of_Quetta_places_his_office_under_the_protection_of_Our_Lady (4 January 2021)

“I waited for the right project for the right time and it just came together.”

Aaliyah (1979–2001) American singer, actress and model

CBS interview (2000)

“How does a project get to be a year late? … One day at a time.”

Fred Brooks (1931) American computer scientist

Page 153 (italics and ellipsis in source).
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

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