Action Quote by Jaime Lerner

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

— Cate Blanchett

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We know the costs of failure. There is now no excuse for government - at any level - not to invest in a safer,…

— Eric Adams

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

— Robert McNamara

“The assumption that the city, the state, or even the federal government has the plans and the wherewithal to handle this particular crisis is…

— Ted Koppel

All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which…

— Alan Carr

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

— Henry Mintzberg

Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be…

— Andrew Natsios

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

— Jack Canfield

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

— Anonymous

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs