Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. – Alexander Hamilton
The reality about transportation is that it’s future-oriented. If we’re planning for what we have, we’re behind the curve. – Anthony Foxx
Smart financial planning – such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement – can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes. – Ben Bernanke
I type everything on my computer. I carry a writer’s notebook everywhere, in case I am struck by an idea. I forget things unless I write them down. I’m planning to learn how to dictate into my cellphone; I think that will be very helpful, too. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When I get back from this book tour, I’m planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace. – Armistead Maupin
It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I’m not planning to write a script; I’m planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there. – Alex Garland
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. – Alan Lakein
When I’m doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we’re talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry? – Candice Olson
I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy. – Abdullah II of Jordan
Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities. – Ban Ki-moon
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. – Ben Chandler
As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven’t been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going. – Big Sean
At LearnVest, we’re working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially. – Alexa Von Tobel
Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, ‘I’m going to create an evil habit for this corporation.’ – Charles Duhigg
This isn’t like cancer, where we don’t know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it’s this huge cause of stress. – Alexa Von Tobel
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best. – Ben Carson
Anyone who’s had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you’re walking out the door, you’re planning the next. – Chris Evans
Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people. – Buzz Aldrin
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. – Atom Egoyan
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way. – Bjarke Ingels
What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that’s what we did. – Barbara Castle
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. – Barack Obama
The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something. – Bhagat Singh
I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can – thinking, figuring, planning – and then you pray. – Conrad Hilton
There’s some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the ’60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba. – Aaron McGruder
When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb. – Alice Walker