Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.
Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.
I've always said, 'I didn't have a Plan B in life.' I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It's all about desire and passion. At all costs.
You could say that it's in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces of people that were neither planned nor rehearsed.
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
I love my job and I love my children. It's really about figuring out your schedules and getting everything down that you need to do and sticking to your plan.
Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
Consistency with the right strategic plan is the ultimate key to success. Yesterday's action would never make up for today's procrastination.
Success is what happens when a mind with a positive attitude meets an effective plan of action.
The plans of your enemies against you mean absolutely nothing since God is already busy creating a great future for you.
When an impressive level skill is accompanied with consistent action on the right plan, success becomes the only possible destination.
There would be more happily married couples in the world if people spent more time planning for a married life than for a wedding?
Not everyone who works hard gets to make it in life. But those who work hard with a smart plan always do.
As important as it is to work very hard on your dream, it is even more important to ensure that you are working with the right plan.
Working hard doesn't necessarily mean being productive, unless it is accompanied with an effective strategic plan of action.
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.
