Natalie Goldberg Quotes

Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

The 6 Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

You can put in all the plays in the world, but if a guy is not executing it's not going to work.

I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results.

I want to control everything that goes into winning or losing.

There are games when you do well, and others that go differently.

Practicing hard doesn't guarantee you anything.

In football, you can't always succeed.

This is a crazy game we play. You're going to have those times you can't get out, and those times where you can do everything right, and the ball does not fall.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Luck is not a business model.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

If you don't execute on your plans, then you don't reach anywhere.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome - or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.