“No plan survives contact with the enemy”
“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”
Quoted in "How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" - by Vladimir Sevruk - History - 1974 - Page 27.
“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.”
This includes a common paraphrase of a statement which originates with military strategist Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke: "No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“My times be in thy hand!
Perfect the cup as planned!”
Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 187.
Context: So, take, and use thy work:
Amend what flaws may lurk,
What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past the aim!
My times be in thy hand!
Perfect the cup as planned!
Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same!
“A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.”
Source: Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957), p. 60; cited in: Craig Calhoun (2012), Contemporary Sociological Theory, p. 254
“No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.”
Source: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 1, “Liz: Red Pill, Blue Pill” (p. 16)
“You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?… A plan.”
Source: Lone Wolf
Source: Whispers Under Ground (2012), Chapter 25, “Ladbroke Grove” (p. 262)
