#planning

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#davita #harp #past #planning #potok

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#planning #focus

This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#against #almost #always #attack #care

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#careful #crazy #lot #me #past

Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us. ↗

— John Breaux

#help #identify #means #obtain #our

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#based #cultures #develop #dominant #expect

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death. ↗

— John Thorn

#blissfully #death #definition #fully #ignorant

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips. ↗

— Scott Walker

#attrition #government #i #layoffs #massive

Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves. ↗

— Venus Williams

#career #course #done #great #great career

Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance — not to a simple-minded precision dance with everyone kicking up at the same time, twirling in unison and bowing off en masse, but to an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole. The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any once place is always replete with new improvisations. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#sociology #art