Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.
Interpretation
Stay flexible and open to new opportunities while pursuing your goals.
This quote emphasizes the importance of adaptability in one’s plans. While it is essential to have a strategy and remain committed to it, one should not become so attached that they miss out on unexpected opportunities or alternative paths that could lead to greater success. Flexibility allows us to navigate the uncertainties of life and capitalize on unforeseen possibilities.
In practice
During a team meeting when discussing project adjustments.
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?
It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?
To write is human, to edit is divine.
Gratitude is one of the most effective ways of getting in touch with your soul.
Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.
Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?
Why should I dislike anything about my appearance? I came off the factory line this way. I am perfect.
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