Quotes About Planning

Pictures of Cheam adorn the walls of planning offices of every Home County to serve as an awful warning.

If you FAIL to PLAN. You PLAN to FAIL.

By failing to prepare, you a preparing to fail.

While Bevan and Clarke began weaving together the strands of Operation Barclay, Montagu and Cholmondeley went hunting for a dead body. In his initial plan, Cholmondeley had assumed one could simply pop into a military hospital and pick a bargain cadaver off the shelf for ten pounds. The reality was rather different.

A professional soldier with formidable powers of recall, after each cozy and informal chat with the Führer, Oshima compiled a detailed update on Hitler's military thinking and planning, which was encrypted and sent by wireless, with German approval, to the Japanese Foreign Office. These reports were read with avid interest in Tokyo—and Washington and London.

The central plank of the deception was to be nailed down by planting false information through the double agents. Cockade was not quite the grand roll of the dice envisaged by Masterman, but it was the most ambitious gamble so far.

Planning continued through the week,

I did not want to risk travel delays, so I took the train the evening before.

I agreed that it would have been better to tie our policy plans more directly to conditions in the economy rather than setting a date.

Still, in the interest of good planning, I thought it made sense for the FOMC to discuss and agree on the mechanics of normalizing policy. And

which would cut into my prep time.

sit within five rows of an exit. Memorize an escape plan. And perhaps most important of all: try to relax.

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house(and a fire) to put her in.