Quotes About Planning

I'm always gonna be an actor, so I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do next. I would love to make a documentary again someday, but I need to take a break from it.

I love looking out at 27 semis and being like, every single one of those semi trucks is there to put together my stage.

designer of ditches, not a digger of ditches

Perhaps it would be an idea to require developers to live on their own estates for five years, as a demonstration of their superb liveability. It's just a thought. I

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion

In my experience, the last people you want trying to solve any problem, but especially those involving roads, are highway engineers. They operate from the principle that while no traffic problem can ever truly be solved, it can be spread over a much larger area.

plan ahead. '[The] keys to success are to plan ahead, to choose manageable recipes and to cook in batches' (The New York Times). Always tautological. Would you plan behind?

advance planning. The advance in advance planning is always redundant. All planning must be done in advance.

Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day - and overestimate what they can accomplish in a year.

accomplishing a vision requires a lot more than pep talks, slogans, emotional stories, and heart-tugging video clips.

The question isn't, "What do I want to get done in the next thirty days?" but, "Who do I want to become in this next season of my life?" Once we answer that key question, calendars and schedules are terrific tools for helping us accomplish our life goals, both interpersonal and practical. Many

Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

La dernière chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la première. ( The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first .)

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.

Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so. (Page 10)

The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.

Just as important, thinking about an exit plan will force you to ask important, difficult questions about yourself.

A team box was tied down in the center holding everything from climbing ropes to arctic clothing to chemical/biological protection suits, parachutes, dry suits, spare radio batteries, two million in gold coins for barter, etc., etc.; someone with an extremely paranoid and inventive mind had packed it. Aka Nada.

less than 10% of the writers have a clear idea of where they want to be in five years with their writing career.

You can "pants" your way through your novel, but you can't "pants" your way to success.

contingencies

No matter how much we plan, how well trained and prepared we are, there is always an element of chaos.

He acted like doing too much advance preparation would diminish his skills in improvising.