Quotes About Planning

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

Touring takes a lot of work, a lot of preparation.

Your time is spent making records, planning, touring - not counting the days until another guy's concert. There are some newer artists I like in a casual, passing way, but I couldn't tell you the bass player's name or name two songs off of their new record.

Our government has this three-city concept where Tirupati will be a city of lakes and a tourist destination, Amaravati a blue-green city, and Visakhapatnam a beautiful city buzzing with economic activity and jobs.

There is always a lot of work going on behind the scenes at a tournament, and that's even more true at the WTA Finals, where we have many activities during the day, and you really have to set everything up.

It's not easy to put another tournament on the schedule.

You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.

We plan tours months in advance, and you leave a few days off here and there where you feel you'll be tired after some shows, but if other opportunities keep coming in, those days get swallowed very quickly, and it's an impossibility to get this stuff right.

I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Living a frugal lifestyle gives you the opportunity to invest more money towards your future.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Today's builders and town planners believe people inhabit 'places'. Yet medieval towns were perfect examples of what planners seek: densely populated, walkable communities in which people ate local, seasonal food, and rich and poor lived in close proximity.

I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.

At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.

For me, if I knew that I wanted to be a CEO and I set that final destination right up front, that helped me develop a career track.

Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.

Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.

If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.