Fankyew, Dawling! So kind!
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Is sharing an image ok? Have this over my home office desk and sent a copy to someone earlier this week who complained about how nothing works out they way they planed.
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It’s really cool, and very true, but it’s not really a quotation, is it?
I’m not a prick: I wouldn’t dream of asking you to delete it or anything. 
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Helmuth von Moltke 1800–91
Prussian military commander
- No plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main force.
2.Kriegsgechichtliche Einzelschriften* (1880); often quoted as, ‘No plan survives first contact with the enemy’
Or if you prefer a different version…
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face"
Mike Tyson
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This might suffice, although it has a much deeper meaning in the film:
“A compass, I learned when I was surveying, it’ll point you True North from where you’re standing. But it’s got no advice about the swamps and deserts and chasms that you’ll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead heedless of obstacles and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp… what’s the use of knowing True North?”
— Lincoln (eponymous 2014 film)
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Okay, True North may not be worth knowing, but North of North is!
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I’ll be sure to Inuk into it.
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This made me think of his nephew, who exclaimed to the Kaiser, “Your Majesty, we have lost the war,” soon after World War I started.
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“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
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“O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”
—Isabella, in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
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