Quotes About Planning

Set aside some significant time to talk about where you see yourselves TOGETHER in the next three, five, and ten years down the road.

If he says something silly like "I'm just trying to make it day by day," run. If his long-term plan is the same as his short-term plan, get out. Immediately. Because his answer tells you that he hasn't thought his life through, or he doesn't see you in it and so he has no reason to divulge the details to you.

he's talking to you to determine exactly how much he has to invest to get what he wants.

The what's next is the reason to keep waking up. The what's next is the driving force for all successful people. There always has to be a what's next.

I figured at least three families could live in there comfortably. And after the Revolution, they would.

Step 2 Mark off a square for the wall, I made mine 67 by 67 blocks.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Don't sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want."

Plan for your success; Live your success…Act as if."

The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines.

The only way to reduce the variability in the estimate is to reduce the variability in the project.

Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...] Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.

People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.

Cold allowed precision, heat threw caution aside and plunged in rampantly. Cold was the process of deliberation and planning, heat the result of unbridled passion. Passion was fine, but only when controlled and channeled properly.

When you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

Think about the blouse you want to wear for that big meeting with your boss, or the skirt you want to reserve for a client dinner. Once you've pinpointed the item that you'll feel good in, the other pieces will fall into place.

When I work on multiple projects, I'm really good at dividing my days, so I start in the morning with a clean slate.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

Always know I have something up my sleeve.

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.