Quotes About Planning

It's always a good idea to ask yourself, Where is this decision likely to lead? When you do, you can avoid many hassles and mistakes that are otherwise inevitable. By asking this simple question, you can keep your energy directed in areas that will serve you and others well.

In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a waste. Trees are extravagant. Tree trunks are standing monuments to futile competition - futile if we think in terms of a planed economy. But the natural economy is not planned. Individual plants compete with other plants, of the same and other species, and the result is that they grow taller and taller, far taller than any planner would recommend.

Porque no hay una forma adecuada de planificar la vida ni tampoco de vivirla: sólo un montón de formas inadecuadas.

It's not an unusual American story. Just as there's no right way to plan a life and no right way to live one—only plenty of wrong ways.

Two Dimensions of Executive Skills: Thinking and Doing Executive skills involving thinking (cognition) Working memory Planning/prioritization Organization Time management Metacognition Executive skills involving doing (behavior) Response inhibition Emotional control Sustained attention Task initiation Goal-directed persistence Flexibility

While all executive skills are important, when it comes to teenagers, parents are likely to be particularly aware of the impact of specific skills. For example, in managing the demands of school, sports, work, and an active social life, the skills of planning/prioritization, organization, task initiation, and time management are particularly important.

If you're going to be a grown-up," said Joan, "you've got to start thinking about grown-up things. And number one is money.

This is where we work, in the interstices of ignorance, the land of contradiction and silence, planning to convince you with the seemingly known, to resolve - or make usefully vivid - the contradiction, and to make the silence eloquent.

As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. Our commanders are going to have to coordinate their efforts for the attack, he said. Iain wants Winslow and Dylan and you to handpick the soldiers who'll ride with us into England. We're attacking England? Gideon asked, astonished. No, Brodick answered. Though the thought of it warms my heart.

We all have different skill sets, interests, concentration cycles, and energy levels. The key is to find out how long it really takes YOU to do the things you need to do and move away from wishful thinking.

Successful organizing forces you to look at the big picture, not one small section of the frame, so that the system you design will be complete.

Hard to choose. Wait, and let the bad things go on. Act, and maybe waste your chance anyway, because the timing's wrong. The best plan in the world can fall apart.

You don't have to say a thing except yes. You don't have to do anything, either, I'm quite willing to plan it all. You? Yes me. You'd plan all of it? Even the wedding? Why not? You don't even like to plan your own breakfast. He grinned. You mean more to me tban bacon. More than [i]bacon?[/i] I'm honored. You should be, my foolish pea brain.

Pray stop your infernal whispering. You sound like a pack of nuns planning a murder.

to me." She struck a pose. "And never see you again?" "Aa, so you are planning

One day's too far ahead to plan.

He had always said there was nothing that a list couldn't solve. Conquer the details and you conquer the problem.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive