Quotes About Planning

I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Winning the Absa Cape Epic already was a wonderful surprise. The World Cup was, for sure, my main goal, but winning all of them was nothing I had planned on.

When I was made captain, one of my things was that whatever happens in those four years, you don't want to make major changes just before a World Cup. We'd done it before, and it never worked.

I started the 1998 World Cup with Teddy Sheringham up front but always planned for Michael Owen to face Colombia in our final group game because they defended square and a quick striker would be able to exploit the space behind them.

Don't ever in your life do a World Cup and the Olympic Games at the same time. This will make your life almost impossible.

In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?

The thing about movies is that till it goes on floors, it's just preparations for the film.

I never approach an actor till I have finished the script.

Tim Lewis is great, he's a great coordinator.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.

The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.

I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.

One of the many delights that I found in directing was that you plan so many things so meticulously so that they go smoothly. But you also have to leave time and space for spontaneous emotional moments to arise.

I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.

Once you have a blueprint down, you start talking to all the other heads of department to see if and how they can help to execute what you've imagined, and so things change and evolve. And then you have to make it work within the budget and time frame, so things change even more.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really - in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the actors, it's really about time management. And so the smartest filmmakers are the ones who sort of pre-visualize the film in their head and are literally shooting the shots they need to cut the story together.

Time management is surely the most critical aspect of acing multiple arenas: home, work, and family.

Time management is really important.

Time management is really key for me.