Quotes About Planning

First we must accomplish the task at hand. An officer who looks too far ahead stumbles over his own boots.

day and then Mom will meet me in Cleveland tomorrow night for the debate on Wednesday. Okay . . . Just wanted to touch base with you. Call me or Mom when you can, okay? Bye." Ryan disconnected the call and tossed

When the French high command had got wind of the German Schlieffen Plan prior to World War I, their reaction had been, "So much the better for us!" That assault had barely ground to a halt outside Paris. In 1940, the same high command had greeted initial news of another German attack with smiles—and that attack had ended at the Spanish border. The problem was that people tended to wed their ideas more faithfully than their spouses, and the tendency was universal. It

It described a horse without telling the listener how he intended to use the horse.

we're proceeding on the assumption that the operation initiated in America.

All through that winter and into the spring, when our Tuesday and Thursday-night dinner shifts were done, Matt and I would sit at the long table near the salad bar and plan his end-of-the-year party, our voices echoing importantly in the cavernous wood-panelled dining hall.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, thirty-fourth president of the United States, was the Supreme Allied Commander in World War II. He said this about logistics: "You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?

Poor project management is the leading cause of failure in technical projects

Oh, yeah. I got big plans. He swallowed twice from the bottle. Any planning in a bottle is short, thought Stamp.

Any planning in a bottle is short, thought Stamp, but he knew from personal experience the pointlessness of telling a drinking man not to.

The result in all these cities, from Berlin to Stalingrad, was the classic Soviet-era housing solution: mile upon mile of identical gray or brown cement blocks; cheap, poorly-constructed, with no distinguishing architectural features and lacking any aesthetic indulgence (or public facilities).

Why are we so sure that some planning, or progressive taxation, or the collective ownership of public goods, are intolerable restrictions on liberty; whereas closed-circuit television cameras, state bailouts for investment banks 'too big to fail', tapped telephones and expensive foreign wars are acceptable burdens for a free people to bear?

if politi-cians—however well-intentioned—were barred from planning, manipulating, or directing the affairs of their fellow citizens, then extremists of Right and Left alike would be kept at bay.

The most obvious symptom of the change came in the form of 'planning'.

An older generation of free market economists used to point out that what is wrong with socialist planning is that it requires the sort of perfect knowledge (of present and future alike) that is never vouchsafed to ordinary mortals. They were right. But it transpires that the same is true for market theorists:

Unsurprisingly, planning was most admired and advocated at the political extremes.

The intellectual case for planning was never very strong. Keynes, as we have seen, regarded economic planning much as he did pure market theory: in order to succeed, both required impossibly perfect data.

Since 1973, however, free-market theorists had re-emerged, vociferous and confident, to blame endemic economic recession and attendant woes upon 'big government' and the dead hand of taxation and planning that it placed upon national energies and initiative. In many places this rhetorical strategy was quite seductive to younger voters with no first-hand experience of the baneful consequences of such views the last time they had gained intellectual ascendancy, half a century before.

don't spend money on high-end equipment before you gain the experience and learn to plan a shot.

How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I've committed to?

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Goals without deadlines aren't goals; they're merely directions.

Možno by som si mala samovraždu naplánova? tak, aby sa stretávka a môj pohreb konali v rovnakom ?ase. Pozrela som sa do kalendára. Nie, tak dlho ur?ite nevydržím ?aka?. Teraz máme koniec apríla, rada by som to mala ?o najskôr za sebou.