Tom Glavine Quotes

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

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.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Technology is like the ante in a poker game. It is the price you pay to play the game. But it doesn't mean you are going to win.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

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

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

I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favor or not and then, may be the whole dynamics can change.

Luck is not a business model.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

A game is not won until it is lost.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.