“If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.”
Harvey Mackay (1932) American businessman and journalist
Time Management (2007)
“If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.”
Harvey Mackay (1932) American businessman and journalist
“You can always change your plan, but only if you have one..”
Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2008)
Variant: You can always change your plan, but only if you have one.."
“Failing to plan is planning to fail”
Alan Lakein (1973) American writer
“You can’t have a plan for your day, ‘til you have a plan for your life.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
“They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned.”
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
"Birthmark" in Paris Review (Spring 2003)
Context: They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love and they worked together to fill these rooms with high-end, consumer-grade equipment. It was a tight situation. The next sudden move would have to be through the wall.
“The plans we put in place this week have gone according to plan.”
Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager
7-Jan-2006, Radio Derby
He had a plan about the plans - maybe.
Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist
Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011100437_3.html, January 11, 2007.
Ben Aaronovitch book Whispers Under Ground
Source: Whispers Under Ground (2012), Chapter 25, “Ladbroke Grove” (p. 262)