Quotes About Planning

I really try to plan out my dinners in advance.

I don't plan my dinners at the beginning of the week.

I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

You're doing yourself a disservice if you're not building your roster and your team to give yourself a legitimate chance to score 21 points.

Focus on what needs to be done that day. Don't think too far ahead. Once you start thinking too far ahead, you get distracted by things that don't matter on that day.

I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

The secret I've lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And that's always my closet.

There's a lot of work to do - not only the science but maintaining the facilities up here. When you go down from a crew of six to a crew of three, obviously you've lost half of your crew time available, so it does have an impact. But it's an impact we plan for.

Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.

It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn't block out the other.

Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.

I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something.

I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys' sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.

I always talk with my technical staff before I announce a squad. I have always done that; I am changing nothing.

The technical director's role is very important - not just on contracts, not just on signing players and seeing through the philosophy but also in taking a bit of weight off the manager.

If you look at the American Jobs Plan, there is a real focus on a multiyear public investment plan designed to get at those shovel-worthy projects - those projects that are not going to take forever but really do require some planning and technical capability.

Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.

Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).

Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.