Quotes About Planning

Interaction design is not guesswork.

Generally, programmers aren't thrilled about the iterative method because it means extra work for them. Typically, it's managers new to technology who like the iterative process because it relieves them of having to perform rigorous planning, thinking, and product due diligence

I stared at Emily Reed as the truck churned slowly toward the center of the field. She had her back to me now, talking to the camera. Reporting on the sudden, alarming interruption to the most-watched sporting event in America. The interruption she herself had planned. I had to do something. Tell someone. Stop her. The Black Widow was right there, in the lower section of the stadium, not a hundred feet from me!

Failing to plan mean you plan to fail.

Hamilton] did not reach Alexandria until the afternoon of March 26, and this meant he had barely three weeks in hand. The job that lay before the General was, in effect, nothing less than the setting up of the largest amphibious operation in the whole history of warfare... In fact the only operation that could be compared with this lay thirty years ahead on the beaches of Normandy in the second world war; and the planning of the Normandy landing was to take not three weeks but nearly two years.

Disaster often comes in the long run from suboptimal decisions in the short run

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

too often "managements 'navel gaze' and look for problems or solutions only within their own organization."86 A viable strategic plan needs to focus first on the external world to determine what to do before focusing inward on how to do it.

Why do today what you can still do in a quarter of a million years?

Let me explain something about survival. You do not worry about the third or fourth stepping stone until you have successfully traversed the first and second. Anything beyond them is a diversion of energies away from the immediate moment.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

I think it's important to be thinking about your personal life and your family not just when you've retired but also during your career.

I like putting things together. The long game. Strategizing. Being able to mix and match personalities of guys.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

Roblox's strength has always been both capitalizing on the early phase but playing the long-game as well.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

All I wanted to do was to perform my music, so I never really thought about photo shoots or music video shoots or interviews. You can't anticipate those things - you just can't plan this as a job.

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, 'to do' lists.

I'm an over-packer 100 percent. I can't do it; I physically can't under-pack.

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.