645 Quotes About Plans

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology.

When we exclude God from our intents and plans, we leave our "house of bread".

We must adjust our plans to succeed in light of the changes that have occurred.

Cohen looked at the forest of lances and pennants. Hundreds of thousands of men looked like quite a lot of men when you saw them close to."I suppose," he said, slowly, "that none of you has got some amazing plan you've been keeping quiet about?""We thought you had one," said Truckle.

Things don't always go as planned, but it's when you make a plan out of the unplanned and make the best of the unlikely things In life.

Everyone I know who put any energy into a backup plan is now living that backup plan instead of their dream. Put all your energy into your dream. That’s the only way it will ever become real.

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to. You take them off their path, away from their plans, from their everyday routine. Sometimes it's also forcing them to die.

Nervy little Shades' Hill purse-clutcher, thinking you can keep me in the dark. What plan?""The plan to steal a corpse.""Ahem. Anything else you'd like to tell me about it?""It's brilliant.