Quotes About Planning

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, Ive wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.

Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.

There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

It takes three weeks to prepare a good ad-lib speech.

I could never plan a thing and get it to come out the way I planned it. It came out some other way--some way I had not counted upon.

Just in this one matter lies the main charm of life in Europe — comfort. In America, we hurry — which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us, and toss and worry over them when we ought to be restoring our racked bodies and brains with sleep.

History don't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Plans are worthless but planning is everything.

Chance favors the prepared mind. —Louis Pasteur

One woman I knew decided, with her husband, to abort a planned pregnancy when a crucial three-day exam was scheduled near her due date. I don't know whether she even asked if the exam could be rescheduled.

When you are drawing, you are always one or two marks ahead. You're always thinking, 'After what I'm doing here I'll go there, and there.' It's like chess or something. In drawing I've always thought economy of means was a great quality - not always in painting, but always in drawing.

Churchill was in his element; work and a clear plan.

Der Mensch versucht vergeblich, durch sein Planen den Erdball in eine Ordnung zu bringen, wenn er nicht dem Zuspruch des Feldweges eingeordnet ist.

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

To attempt radical reform without adequate organization is like trying to sail a boat without a rudder.

Everything you do today impacts the next day as well as the future.

I think it is more tha6 the sea is a reminder of how little control we have over our own lives no matter how carefully we try to plan and order them. Everything changes in ways we least expect, and everything is frighteningly vast. We are so small.