The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James BaldwinIf pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert HubbardWhen I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.
J. ColeEach book I’ve done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
Paul AusterWhat we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin DisraeliPlan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Margaret ThatcherBe polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.
Jim MattisGood order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.
Bill GatesEvery seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.
Dolly PartonDemocracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.
Hunter S. ThompsonAs the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur SchopenhauerTruth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.
Noam ChomskyEverybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.
Kevin HartWhile working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
Alice MunroI was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.
Haruki MurakamiIt is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
VoltaireIn preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.
David GogginsDread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.
Joyce MeyerA belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray BradburyI have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.
Charles BukowskiSome writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
Alice WalkerI think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don’t really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I’ve always had more than one thing going.
J. K. RowlingI’m pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I’m not dirty.
Mr. TBefore I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson MandelaI’m not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
Margaret AtwoodWhere the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack ObamaIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.
George Bernard ShawForethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon BonaparteHistorically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMen often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander HamiltonWork is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand RussellJust because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.
Taylor SwiftSuccess depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
ConfuciusI start each book when it’s ready and never before.
Alice WalkerA little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor RooseveltWriters have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
Charles BukowskiI’ve often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn’t really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn’t seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.
Alice MunroFor a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas AdamsI got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.
Nipsey HussleFirst comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon HillAs soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
Margaret AtwoodFear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
AristotleWhen I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
Taylor SwiftI was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.
Hermann HesseYou should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.
Richard BransonIt’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
Bob DylanEasy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
Maya AngelouI have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.
Douglas AdamsIf the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
Taylor SwiftI always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
J. K. RowlingA place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin FranklinWithout music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank ZappaESPN is a great organization to work for.
Lou HoltzFor me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.
Stephen Curry