Quotes About Planning

from the outside most people can't tell the rapid exploitation of a belatedly recognized opportunity from deep-laid planning.

I planned my life by the hour as closely as one plans a year, and no further than an hour.

It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. " - Anon

A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, God knows. Anyway

A German plans a month in advance what is bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything retrospect, so it always looks as though everything is good as intended. The French glad everything was to be going to be having a party, and the Spanish… Well, God knows.

What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?" I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? "There is time," she said, "but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

Seems to me folks waste a sight of time crossing bridges before they get to them. They clutter their minds with odds and ends that interfere with clear thinking.

He did not like to admit that he might be in error, and he was also an optimistic planner: he expected the breaks to go his way. This, she remembered having heard, was true of the criminal mind;

Nothing in my nature permitted me to trust to fortune, for it was my belief that good luck comes to those who work hard and plan well. So

A move well planned is a move half-done, and I tried to think through every phase. We

I planned to spend mine in new music, said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder.

Meg, and altogether too much of a weathercock just now for anyone to depend on. Don't make plans, Jo

I planned to spend mine in new music," said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder.

Don't you think, dear, that as these girls are used to such things, and the best we can do will be nothing new, that some simpler plan would be pleasanter to them, as a change if nothing more, and much better for us than buying or borrowing what we don't need, and attempting a style not in keeping with our circumstances?

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

the House of Morgan always favored government planning over private competition, but private planning over either.

Rockefeller sounded more like Karl Marx than our classical image of the capitalist. Like the Marxists, he believed that the competitive free-for-all eventually gave way to monopoly and that large industrial-planning units were the most sensible way to manage an economy. But while Rockefeller had faith in such private monopolies, the Marxists saw them as merely halfway houses on the road to socialism.

Pierpont wanted to follow him, but he held back, awaiting word of Junius's plans.

Though he considered establishing a weekend house or summer hideaway, he had no exact plan.

All along, he insisted, he knew it would fail and had gone along simply as a tactical maneuver.

We made sure that we were right and had planned for every contingency before we went ahead.

Morality in the long run aligned with strategy.

As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.

most of what Man does, moment to moment, is for his imagined future, for the coming time, in which he will be happier than in time present.