Quotes About Planning

the time when we tend to notice that we need toilet paper tends not to be the moment when we are in a position to buy it. Relying

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

I've got three days available in July next year, she said. So, are we going to do this thing or not? —Calendar Girl

To me, and to the participants of at the Green Bank conference, the idea that a civilization might destroy itself is both ludicrous and likely. We are pathetically inadequate at long-term planning, idiotically primitive in our destructive urges and pathologically incapable of simply getting along.

WHATEVER happens tomorrow, one thing is certain; it must not be allowed to look after itself.

The past is finished. Learn from it and let it go. The future is not even here yet. Plan for it, but do not waste your time worrying about it. Worrying is worthless. When you stop ruminating about what has already happened, when you stop worrying about what might never happen, then you will be in the present moment. Then you will begin to experience joy in life. We

Live in the present, not the past or the future. The past is over; learn from it and let it go. The future is not yet here. Plan for it, but do not worry. Worry only wastes your time and energy.

As Prussian field marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke said, "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

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Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

If you're planning for consequences, in some sense, you are empathizing with your "future self.

As we've said before, the cortex is the most uniquely human part of our body, and, no surprise, it gives rise to the most uniquely human capabilities: speech, language, abstract thinking, reflecting on the past, planning for the future.

The majority of famous men are not taken unawares by fame. On the wall of their minds hangs their own vision of what they ought to be and can be. They are not surprised by success when it comes; because they have seen it coming, and planned out its coming, in their dreams.

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

In fact the best plan would have you wintering in the Bahamas, spend hurricane season in DR and PR, the next winter in the Virgins, Leewards and Windwards, the next summer in Venezuela and the third winter in Trinidad. Now you've got lots of time.

Planning, gentlemen, is 'What are you going to do next year that's different from what you did this year?'" he told them. "All I want is five items.

Clarence Hurt was driving, and he got lost. "Does anyone know where the Post Office Building is?" Hurt asked at one point. "I can tell you," Karpis said. "How do you know where it is?" asked Clyde Tolson, who sat in the backseat with Hoover. "We were thinking of robbing it," Karpis said.

It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

But things never go according to plan. In fact, I think if you're really attached to controlling your future, you should plan for the opposite of what you want just to confuse the cosmic comedians whose sole job is to figure out what you think your future should hold so they can preclude it from ever happening.

In an economic system not rationally planned for human need, but developing fitfully, chaotically out of the profit motive, there seemed to be no way to avoid recurrent booms and slumps.

As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

You have to measure everything twice because you can only cut once.

In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.