Quotes About Planning

Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

I plan my time to a 'T.' I plan when I am going to sleep; I plan when I am going to relax. I obviously leave time to have spontaneous life experiences - I think that's really important. But so much of it is setting up you mental energy in the right way to get the most out of your day and time.

These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

I'm trying to leave more of my calendar open for the spontaneous things. A lot of fun stuff that happened in previous years were things that were like, 'Hey are you available next week?' I wasn't really open unless it was planned months in advance. I'm excited to play it by ear and let a lot of stuff happen as it happens.

Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.

Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

On 'The Spy Who Dumped Me,' it wasn't fear as much as it was feeling overwhelmed because there were so many moving parts. But I felt that I knew what I was doing. And on a movie like this, there's so much preparation that goes into it that by the time you were there, you had done months of planning.

I believe it's important to have a sporting director - someone to facilitate the communication between the club and the squad, and work on its planning. But not just at Madrid, at all teams.

Businesses look for stability; they look for direction.

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

The Seoul city government has been cooperating with the central government to stabilize the housing market, and we plan to brainstorm all possible ways with the government to better counter the issue.

The odds are stacked against you becoming a footballer, so my family made sure I always had a backup plan.

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.

Whenever a team has three weeks to prepare, and it's an excellent coach and coaching staff and great players, you've got to work on it all.

In the early years I had no real plan. I figured it out as I went, which is easier to do when you don't have a lot of staff and overhead. Back then I believed my job was just to create great-looking shoes. That wasn't true. I learned that the shoes needed to fit, be comfortable, and not fall apart.

How well a team executes its plans is important, but I think keeping nerves under pressure is far more important in the knockout stage.

I jump around in the plotting stage, where I basically just make a bulleted list of every damn thing that happens in the entire book.