Quotes About Planning

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

Max Boot theorem: Don't invade without planning for a long occupation.

If the Germans did not have material superiority, what accounted for their easy victory? Quite simply, their decisive edge in doctrine, training, planning, coordination, and leadership. Thus the final victory was a tribute not to panzers alone but to the skillful employment of the combined-arms concept.

A good general, Allister was fond of saying, plans in two ways: for an absolute victory and for an absolute defeat. The one enables him to squeeze the last ounce of success out of a triumph; the other keeps a failure from turning into a catastrophe.

That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one.

Organize before they rise!

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans. Paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

Preparation is rarely easy and never beautiful.

I am a builder Sometimes I have built well, but often I have built without researching the ground Upon which I put my building

I'd be a dumbass if I didn't plan for every contingency.

I'm thinking the biggest decisions we need to think about is what beer we want and whether we're going to run out.

I whirled around. "It wasn't just a kiss," I said. I was getting really mad. "Maybe that's how you wanted it to look, like it was just a kiss. But you and I both know what it really was: A media event. And one that you've been planning since you saw me in the Post. Well, thank you, Josh, but I can get my own publicity. I don't need you.

I love stupid plans.

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

A successful thief doesn't depend on things being unlikely to happen, I said.

If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.

I'm sure Gen has a plan," Sounis said as he held Eddis in place. "If that doesn't frighten you, it should," said Eddis, glowering.

You try to plan your life, but that's not how it works.

If the girl was anything like Harper, she would have an itemized list and a step-by-step process for carrying out her revenge. So if she really did risk someone recognizing her, it had to be for something important.

Whereas I like to worry early and avoid the rush," O'Neill said.