Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
—Thomas Edison
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
—Thomas Jefferson
I have sadly neglected the cultivation of my natural talents. Let me now attend to it, imploring the divine blessing. I will form a plan of study and exercise, having a special reference to the faults of my intellect, whether natural or superinduced.
—William Wilberforce
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
— Abraham Maslow
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
—Sun Tzu
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
—Thomas Edison
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
—Thomas Jefferson
I don’t think we can ever count on thread being supplied for a pattern He has not planned. Our prayer must be, Protect me from mistaking my desire for Your direction.
—Amy Carmichael
I have sadly neglected the cultivation of my natural talents. Let me now attend to it, imploring the divine blessing. I will form a plan of study and exercise, having a special reference to the faults of my intellect, whether natural or superinduced.
—William Wilberforce
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
—Thomas Edison
“We believe in a God of purposes and plans.
He has not left a blind fate to terrorize the world.”
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ‘happy’ is not included in the plan of ‘creation.’
—Sigmund Freud