Quotes About Planning

As a player I think you naturally think long term and think what is the schedule in the next year or so.

I like short-term goals. I'm never thinking about a five-year or a ten-year plan; I'm always thinking, 'What am I doing in the next year? What am I doing the year after that?'

A lot of people go into the bar and nightclub business thinking: 'Hey, we can make money for a year or two, close and then open again,' but for me, it's always been a business and it's always been about longevity.

A 30-day shoot is a nightmare.

I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

I've never been willing to commit to more than one at a time, because I just don't know - I don't plan the books out ahead of time. So I have no idea how much ground we'll cover.

e que se faça como os arqueiros sensatos, os quais, diante de um alvo demasiado distante, e conhecendo até onde vai a potência de seu arco, alçam a mira muito mais alta que o ponto de destino, não para alcançar com suas flechas tanta altura, mas para poder, com o auxílio de tão alta mira, atingir sua meta.

É defeito comum dos homens, não fazer contas na bonança com a tempestade

then life began, and since then we remember each dumpster, abandoned house, and foot-chase by retail security. At night, after running around, plotting and scheming, our checklist items all crossed out, we paused to think — 'What to do tomorrow?' and the answer was always, 'As we please . . .

I am always disgusted by the world. The more that time passes the more I become increasingly broody and tight-lipped. I have so many things in mind and so much that I plan to do that an entire human lifetime is barely enough for me to finish everything I'm thinking, and to set it down in writing. That's why I have an absolute need for countryside, quiet, solitude.

And since one of the main purposes of social policy is to keep the population passive, people with power are going to want to eliminate anything that tends to encourage the population to get involved in planning?because popular involvement threatens the monopoly of power by business, and it also stimulates popular organizations, and mobilizes people, and probably would lead to redistribution of profits, and so on.

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

Now if you tell me there were six other naked women and three attendants hanging around who saw you shove her into the locker,i'll have to kill you. There was nobody else there.We're not idiots.she grimaced. I know you think we are, but we're not stupid enough to have done it in front of witnesses. Actually, we timed it that way so she'd be stuck in there longer. she smiled weakly. it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Who've you set up for me tonight? Set up, Myra repeated, wrinkling her nose. What an unromantic phrase. Sorry.How about-who are you planning to loose Cupid's arrow on? It's still unromantic when you're smirking.

she didn't want to date anyone. A relationship, if indeed she decided to cultivate one, was three years down the road. Minimum. She would never make the mistake... [to] depend on someone else for emotional and financial support. First, she would make certain she was solvent, solid, and secure. And then, if and when she chose, she would think about sharing her life.

The future is purchased by the present. —SAMUEL JOHNSON

Her mother would be married by then, and just back from her honeymoon. Maddy and Theo would be her brother and sister, and back in school. She would be planning her own wedding, though she'd pressured Tyler not to announce their engagement yet.

own personal calendar.

And that, Tyler mused, was akin to a blessing. He wasn't sure that he wanted it. Didn't know what he planned to do with it. For the moment, he was going to tuck it away and follow the spirit of Tereza's order. Find Sophia, and escape

Take your time. It'll give me the opportunity to plan several ways to make you suffer.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

They want me to account for my next ten years. Their way, everything in your life turns into an item on a list. Something to accomplish. You get to see how your life looks flattened out. The shortest distance between two points is a timeline, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.