Quotes About Five Year Plans

#1. I don't believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, "Yes, I want to have children in the next five years," because I don't know. I've always known that I'd like to be a mom, but I don't want to live by a schedule. If I [did], I wouldn't be living in the moment.

Charlize Theron

#2. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

Jenna Fischer

#3. It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

Marlo Thomas

#4. I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

Jenna Fischer

#5. Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

John Katzman

#6. When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.

Vladimir Sorokin

#7. I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.

Micah Lexier

#8. 'Rock n' Roll Animal,' the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

Al Jourgensen

#9. I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan.

Trisha Yearwood

#10. Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

John Turner

#11. Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

David Riesman

#12. If your customers have to ask you for it, you haven't been thinking far enough ahead.

Ron Kaufman

#13. Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.

David Baldacci

#15. We're all such products

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. You're not really moving on when you jump from someone who broke your heart to a new replacement. Moving on is self reflection and being strong enough to stand on your own.

Auliq Ice

#17. I have a prescription here for Obecalp for [patient's name], but I can't find it listed anywhere." He said, "Oh. That's placebo spelled backwards.

Dennis Miller

#18. I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

Walter Annenberg

#19. I started to investigate and unearth an old faith which for thousands of years we philosophers used to build on as the safest of all foundations - which we built on again and again although every previous structure fell in: I began to undermine our faith in morals . But ye do not understand me? -

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.

Poul Anderson