Quotes About Planning

We cannot empathize this enough: sustaining improvements begins with proper planning, followed by proper execution and management.

I bet you make lists. I bet you get up every freaking morning and write down everything you have to do for the day and check it off when it's done. I bet you set aside a certain time to return phone calls. I bet your closet is organized by color. I bet your bookshelves are alphabetized

Yet the victory of fascism was made practically unavoidable by the liberals' obstruction of any reform involving planning, regulation, or control.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

What I criticize under the name Utopian engineering recommends the reconstruction of society as a whole, i.e. very sweeping changes whose practical consequences are hard to calculate, owing to our limited experiences. It claims to plan rationally for the whole of society, although we do not possess anything like the factual knowledge which would be necessary to make good such an ambitious claim.

The great uncertainty of all data in war is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently—like the effect of a fog or moonshine—gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.

Stenton, was planning a Christmas party at Stenton Castle. He had asked Juliette and Stewart to join him, and Juliette would see to it that the Astleys received an invitation.

and began to go through the gear spread out

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

I don't want any help, she said. I want someone to think ahead the way I have to and to do it without me having to ask.

what's generally expected, and come prepared.

I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

As software pundit Fred Brooks once observed, "How does a project get to be a year late?... One day at a time." In

With software, you know what you have to do," he said, "but it's always a big surprise how long it will take." Miller

there was no saying what might come in useful some day.

But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things on it.

I found I had a knack for the combination of discipline, communication, psychology, politics, stagecraft, and creativity that planning a wedding requires.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Invariably, people who suffer from hoarding problems fail to maintain even the most rudimentary organization of their stuff—but not from lack of effort. Like Irene, most have spent countless hours trying to organize their possessions, with little success. Deficits in executive functions such as planning, categorization, organization, and attention leave them lost amid a sea of things, unable to figure out what to do next.

When a man gets to middle age shouldn't he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there'll be something for old age and a little left over for the next generation?

Prepare or Have an Advisor Prepare Separate Tax Returns.

Remember the seven Ps. Seven what? Proper preparation and planning... Prevent piss-poor performance.

A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy