The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
What makes you think that Valentine's change of plans had anything to do with your brother?" "Because only Jace can piss someone off that much.
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.
Everybody's got plans...until they get hit.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.