“If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.”
Harvey Mackay (1932) American businessman and journalist
“If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.”
Harvey Mackay (1932) American businessman and journalist
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
Time Management (2007)
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)
“Because planned economies have historically failed, new modeling techniques are needed.”
Sheyene Gerardi Venezuelan actor and model
[Sheyene Institute Founder`s Letter, http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=38c46884-5abc-491a-89aa-c9bb0b71195c]
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Tweet by @realDonaldTrump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/887280380423938048 (18 July 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, July
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
The God Abandons Antony http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=12&cat=1 (1911).<br>Variant translations:<br>Like one who’s long prepared, like someone brave,<br>as befits a man who’s been blessed with a city like this,<br>go without faltering toward the window<br>and listen with deep emotion, but not<br>with the entreaties and the whining of a coward,<br>to the sounds — a final entertainment —<br>to the exquisite instruments of that initiate crew,<br>and bid farewell to her, to Alexandria, whom you are losing.<br>As translated by Daniel Mendelsohn (2009).<br>Don't mourn your luck that's failing now,<br>work gone wrong, your plans<br>all proving deceptive — don't mourn them uselessly:<br>as one long prepared, and full of courage,<br>say goodbye to her, to Alexandria who is leaving.<br> Unknown translator http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_20.htm <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Context: Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,<br>work gone wrong, your plans<br>all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly.<br>As one long prepared, and graced with courage,<br>say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving.<br>Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say<br>it was a dream, your ears deceived you:<br>don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.