Success quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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This quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower is a reminder that it is easy to make decisions from a range, without having to deal with the repercussions of those decisions. It is easy to make plans and choices when you are not in the thick of it, when you are not the one who needs to do the hard work. Eisenhower is suggesting that it is easy to make strategies and decisions when you are not the one who has to do the effort, when you are not in the middle of the circumstance. He is stating that it is easy to make strategies and choices when you are not the one who has to do the hard work, when you are not in the middle of the corn field. He is saying that it is easy to make strategies and decisions when you are not the one who has to do the hard work, when you are not in the middle of the corn field, but it is much harder to actually carry out those plans and decisions. Eisenhower is reminding us that it is simple to make plans and choices from a distance, but it is much more difficult to really carry them out.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower This quote is written / told by Dwight D. Eisenhower between October 14, 1890 and March 28, 1969. He was a famous President from USA, the quote is categorized under the topic Success. The author also have 80 other quotes.

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