Quotes about plans

You make a plan without intelligence—you might as well not have a plan at all.

This is what’s known as operational flexibility, and definitely not making it up as you go along.

“Flexible,” I said. “Meaning we’re making it up as we go along.”

It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

A thousand wrong plans were no more useful that a single wrong one.

“We need both heart and mind,” Lirin said. “The heart might provide the purpose, but the head provides the method, the path. Passion is nothing without a plan. Wanting something doesn’t make it happen.”

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

You can always change your plan, but only if you have one.."

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.