Quotes About Planning

Always count the costs before starting any journey, and never take a step without finding its costs.

Hope for the best, brace yourself for the worst and no matter what you're faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING!

When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

You might plan how to sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planer, he who plans out to wake up is a Dreamer.

You might plan how to sleep but you can't plan how to wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planer, he who plans out to wake up is a Dreamer.

Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.

It's true that we don't handle things or we don't know about the future but to prepare our life in the most unexpected way won't hurt us.

People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.

tomorrow you will need it.

Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is.

The more you get done now, the less you'd have to do later!

Existing businesses aspiring to become adaptive corporations need to commit to understanding what exactly an adaptive innovator is and how that differs from both systemic designers and knowledge workers. In the end, they will actually need conscious planning to move them from a decades-imbedded orientation of knowledge work, to a new mindset of continuous adaptive innovation centered on the customer.

Think back to the Apollo 13 story. The astronauts and engineers had spent years planning for the launch. They had built a core team inspired by the vision of another flight to the moon. Despite all of that planning, they hit that gut-wrenching moment and said the famous words "Houston we have a problem.

there was hardly any economic justification for going much higher than the originally planned fifty-five or sixty-five stories on the Empire State site. And Shreve knew that. Raskob, however, wanted something taller still. A proposed building of seventy, even eighty stories would make news and bring his project publicity

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

Preparation works better than optimism

The possibilities were too varied to allow reasonable planning.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

The leader does the planning, but he's wise enough not to say so. As the changes become necessary, he slips them in as a concession – temporary, of course – to circumstances, but if he's good, he's slipping in the right bits for the ultimate shape.

How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.

Getting ready is the biggest part of any job, and the hardest, Jared...Lay your foundation true and firm, my boy, prepare your work well; the rest all but does itself.

Each morning consecrate yourselves and your children to God for that day. Make no calculation for months or years; these are not yours. One brief day is given you. As if it were your last on earth, work during its hours for the Master. Lay all your plans before God, to be carried out or given up, as His providence shall indicate.—Testimonies for the Church 7:44 (1902).

Too many, in planning for a brilliant future, make an utter failure. Let God plan for you. As a little child, trust to the guidance of Him who will "keep the feet of His saints." 1 Samuel 2:9. God never leads His children otherwise than they would choose to be led, if they could see the end from the beginning and discern the glory of the purpose which they are fulfilling as co-workers with Him.