Belva Plain Quotes

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

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• I don't plan on being bashful.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Being
  • Plan
  • Bashful

• The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Reason
  • Stuff
  • Plan

• I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Think
  • Learn
  • Battle

• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Something

• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• While I try to keep my fitness regimen consistent, during awards season, I'm especially conscious of what I'll be wearing and plan my workouts accordingly.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Plan
  • Season
  • Fitness

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Failure

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Learn
  • Mistakes
  • Tough

• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Back

• People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • People
  • You
  • Learn

• Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Bad
  • Learn

• I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Know
  • Rest
  • Learn

• The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Failure
  • Fight
  • Television

• My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Friend
  • Failure
  • Years

• I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Learn
  • Movies
  • Fan

• I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Amazing
  • Things
  • Learn

• Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Important
  • Family
  • American

• My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • People
  • Family
  • City

• Cancer is manageable. That if you deprive cancer of what it wants, by proper nutrition, avoiding toxins, avoiding chemicals and pharmaceuticals, sleeping well, eliminating stress, and balancing hormones with natural bioidentical hormones, you have a real shot at keeping your cancer at bay. In this way, you are managing your cancer.

  

  Suzanne Somers
  • Real
  • Sleep
  • Cancer

• It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

  

  Belva Plain
  • Failure
  • Learn
  • Plan