Walter Bagehot Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it s the only one we have. To insist on improving both simultaneously is a recipe for organizational confusion and internal strife. The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits but not when it misses. In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei Plans are nothing.
Planning is everything.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies from all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the old order, this lukewarmness arising partly from their fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favor, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe anything until they have had actual experience of it. Machiavelli Life is a strange thing Just when you think you've learned how to use it, It's gone. A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion.