Life seems to me to consist of three parts: the absorbing and usually enjoyable present which rushes on from minute to minute with fatal speed; the future, dim and uncertain, for which one can make any number of interesting plans, the wilder and more improbable the better, since — as nothing will turn out as […]
Plan Quotes
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.
When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.
Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst.
If you want a crop for one year, grow millet. If you want a crop for ten years, grow a tree. If you want a crop for one hundred years, grow men.
Get the coffin ready and the man won’t die.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
What good is running if you’re on the wrong road?
Choose your neighbors before you buy your house.
Any plan is bad that cannot be changed.
