“My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.”
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“It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie…”
A Prairie Home Companion, News from Lake Wobegon
“Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo.”
As quoted in The Enlightened Mind (1991), edited by Stephen Mitchell
Context: Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of more invisible game.
Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo. You might say, "The world outside is vast and intricate. There are wheatfields and mountain passes, and orchards in bloom. At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding."
You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up in the dark with eyes closed. Listen to the answer.
There is no "other world." I only know what I've experienced. You must be hallucinating.
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
The earliest appearance yet located of this statement is in 50 Ways to Lose Ten Pounds (1995) by Joan Horbiak, p. 95, where it is quoted as an anonymous proverb. It seems to have circulated as such for a few years before it began to be attributed to Saint Exupéry around 2007.
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Helpless, from Déjà Vu (1970)
Song lyrics, With Crosby, Stills & Nash
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”