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Smart people thinking out loud about planning.

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
-John Lennon, British musician

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
-Winston Churchill, British statesman

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”
-Proverb

“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”
-Thomas Edison, American inventor

“To be prepared is half the victory.”
-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
-Anatole France, French writer

“Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.”
-Anonymous

“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
-E. B. White, American humorist

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
-Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer

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Smart folks thinking out loud about finding Great Work with the right people.

“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
-George Shinn, American entrepreneur

“You cannot work with men who won’t work with you.”
-John Harvey Kellogg, American businessman

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”
-Helen Keller, American writer

“I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.”
-Dennis Quaid, American actor

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
John Lennon, British musician

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Smart folks thinking out loud about power.

“Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.”
James Allen, American writer

“You can have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power.”
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer

“Dear, never forget one little point. It’s my business. You just work here.”
Elizabeth Arden (to her husband), Canadian businesswoman

“All human power is a compound of time and patience.”
Honore de Balzac, French writer

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential — for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.”
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
Elie Wiesel, Romanian writer

“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.”
Steven Wright, American comedian

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Smart people thinking out loud about learning from mistakes.

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
-Oscar Wilde, Irish writer

“Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.”
-Billie Joe Armstrong, American musician

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.”
-Niels Bohr, Danish physicist

“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
-Bertolt Brecht, German writer

“My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.”
-Beatrice Wood, American artist

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
-Shaquille ONeal, American basketball star

“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
-Jack Welch, American businessman

“Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.”
-Peter Ustinov, British actor

“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.”
-Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer

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Smart people thinking out loud about tidying up.

“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”
-Zelda Fitzgerald, American muse

“One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds.”
-Proverb

“Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.”
-Mark Twain, American writer

“How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?”
-Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher

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Smart people thinking aloud about focus and planning.

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
- Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor

“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general & politician

“Focusing isn’t just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.”
- Bridget Riley, British artist

“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.”
- Donald Trump, American entrepreneur

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
- Mark Twain, American writer

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
- Gloria Steinem, American feminist

“Failing to plan is planning to fail.”
- Alan Lakein, American business writer

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
- Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer

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Smart people thinking out loud about recognizing others’ humanity.

“Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.”
-Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher

“Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.”
-Connie Mack, American businessman

“Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.”
-Margaret Lawrence, Canadian writer

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
-Thurgood Marshall, American judge

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
-Desmond Tutu, South African cleric

“I love humanity but I hate people.”
-Edna St. Vincent Millay, American playwright

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly - that is the first law of nature.”
-Voltaire, French writer

“A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.”
-George Santayana, Spanish poet

“The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.”
-Marguerite De Launay, Baronne De Staal, French writer

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Smart people thinking out loud about  voting, choices, making a stand.

“Vote early and vote often.”
- Al Capone, American gangster

“Votes should be weighed, not counted.”
- Friedrich von Schiller, German poet

“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
- Kofi Annan, Ghanaian statesman

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
-Theodore Roosevelt , American president

“Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.”
- Robert Frost, American poet

“Stand, you’ve been sitting much too long, there’s a permanent crease in your right or wrong.”
- Sly Stone, American musician

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
- Emma Goldman, Lithuanian activist

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“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
-William Shakespeare, English writer

“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”
-Judy Garland, American entertainer“

“Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.”
- Swami Sivananda, Indian monk

“Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.”
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer

“Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”
- Matthew Arnold, English writer

“There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usage of man’s life: “Know thyself,” and “Nothing too much”; and upon these all other precepts depend.”
-Plutarch, Greek writer

“Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.”
- Andre Gide, French writer

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Smart folks thinking out loud about taking it easy.

“Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.”
-Mark Twain, American writer

“Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.”
-T.S. Elliot, British writer

“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”
-Herodotus, Greek historian

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
-Jane Austen, British writer

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”
-Lin Yutang, Chinese writer

“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.”
-Satchel Paige, American baseball player

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