Quotes About Planning

I'm a goal-oriented person, and instead of focusing on the past, I'd rather focus on the future.

I am always focusing on what I can do better for years down the line.

What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?

Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food.

I think it's very important that you don't start thinking about your life after football when you are 33 or 34. There are many more amazing things in this world, and it's important to think about these things before you retire.

The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.

I think having a back-up plan is never a bad thing. I would hate to be a male footballer and look back on 15 years of my career and think, 'Oh well, I've got a lot a money but what now?'

If there is something I would go back and change it would have been to have lined up some other interest outside to go into after football. That's one bit of advice I give to young professional footballers, to set that up.

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

You never know what's going to happen and I know that fighting is not forever. So post-fighting I definitely want to have a career, and I think a master's degree will help much more than a bachelor's degree.

A lot of directors, they don't go into the editing room during the shoot. When they come back, they've forgotten what they've shot. That's why their films come out a year after they shoot them.

You cannot have a situation where you think that if you want to attack, then you play this formation, and if you want to defend, then you play this formation.

T20 may be fast, but still, you never plan for a T20 - the same way you don't plan for the other formats.

I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it.

I'm not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

With 'Crazy Story,' I thought it from the back to the front. I thought about the ending first, then what's going to happen.

You know, 'You should have frozen your eggs at 20.' Well, who's thinking about that at 20?

Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white maples over against the ha-ha a quarter of a mile from the house so that the contrast seen from the ball-room windows should be agreeable—in thirty years' time? In those days thought, in families, went in periods of thirty years, owner gravely consulting heir who should see that development of light and shade that the owner never would.

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