When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘True Lies’, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.
In 1993, as House Democratic Leader, I led the fight to pass the Clinton-Gore economic plan – a plan designed to slash the deficit, invest in education, cut taxes for working families, and ask the wealthy among us to pay their fair share… Not one Republican voted for that plan. They said it was a job killer.
Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.
Frustration is not a work plan.
If you don’t plan to dive in and dedicate all of your time to your startup, you probably shouldn’t be looking for funding. It’s hard enough asking for money when you believe in an idea; asking for money to fund something you’re iffy about is ten times more strenuous.
The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God’s grand plan. It was a thwarting of God’s plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.
God has a plan for me and I know that it’s all going to work out.
I’m always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don’t have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I’m making my own choices.
I didn’t plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence – an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered – ‘In the beginning, God.’
We’ve all tried to bunk our gym session or dance class. A single routine can get monotonous. That’s why I have decided to make my fitness regime fun by incorporating different workouts into my schedule. From dancing to yoga, I plan to keep it as interesting as possible so I’m never bored of working out.
I grew up – my dad, every time I was with my dad, he was always – not always, but he wrote. He’s a writer. So he was always in his office writing. He made a plan and, like, a point of, ‘This is my work. I’m going to do this every day for these amount of hours.’ So I think that’s where I got, like, a work sort of ethic.
The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!
My name became a brand, and I’d love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I’ve stuck to that ever since.
Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
If you’re running for president, you’ve got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I’ve not done any of those things. It’s not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.
Every defense’s game plan is to take me away.
I have a master plan as an artist. I’ve always said I’m not going to be punching nobody’s clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
Dropping out of college was never the plan, but it made me eligible for the Peter Thiel Fellowship. I was the first Asian to win that grant!
In a city where you walk around, it’s impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you’ll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.
I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I’m buying for family and friends, I’m thinking about what I’m going to eat on the weekend but also about what I’m going to make for the following week.
In the history of America, we’ve never had an energy plan. We don’t even realize the resources we have available to us.
Don’t think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.
Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn’t a guaranteed pension.
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan.
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
I’ve never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
I know I can’t plan in this business, but I’m going to keep going as long as I keep getting close… So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I’ve had. I’m just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.
I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.
I don’t have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It’s part of the fun.
You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to go with the flow.
We’re strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
I believe the favor of God on my life is not for me to keep to myself and become proud of, but to be used for others… I believe God has a plan for me in the entertainment world.
All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there’s going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.
I don’t plan to restrict myself to rapping in the future, and I didn’t want to come off as too aggressive, which is why I thought about changing my name.
There’s never been any game plan or thread through my career. It’s just happened that I’ve ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That’s kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.
If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.
The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.
Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I’m in a hurry.
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.
The future will take care of itself. My plans have fallen flat. Nothing that I planned has worked for me so far. So I don’t plan anymore. I keep short-term plans.
Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.
Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It’s more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.
The bottom line is a record of ideas. The bottom line is a plan for how to get this country back on track. It’s not about attendance – it’s about goals and opportunity to move this nation forward.
The Democrats’ plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?
Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.
I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.
You can’t plan for the future, because some guy’s going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
