"There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of â€˜Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg)."

-- Tim Harford

#Thinking Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You use sex to express every emotion except love.”
“I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.”
“A cop told me, a long time ago, that thereâ€™s no substitute for knowing what youâ€™re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones thatâ€™re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.”
“The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.”
“You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.”
“I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick; it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space.”

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“The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works and votes -generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.”
“Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.”

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