Quotes About Planning

To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.

Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.

Listen, you are no longer a boy. You are forty. When will you learn not to wait for chance but to build on what you have and use each day to consolidate your position? Why have you never been anything more than Tribune? Because your plans always begin with next month.

In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school.

Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.

All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.

herself about tomorrow.

The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I like this business. Parts of it I love, and I didn't want it to just end. The further you get away from your success, the less your phone rings. The next thing you know, it's 20 years later and you're in a mall going, "Remember when Al and I used to do something like this..."

Half the fun is plan to plan

The number one directive of any decent Master Plan is unlimited sub–Master Plans.

I go over my own escape routes all the time.

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

Stats are stats but if you want to be sure you're going to have, say, three children with no problems, you should start at around 23.

There's really no secret to this; that everybody's - they are going to have a game plan against me and I'm going to have a game plan against them. It just comes down to execution.

I don't like to fill up my schedule. It's easy to do, but then that year arrives, and you find that you have no time, so you are desperately trying to cancel something. I have to think of my family.

Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.

I don't like to look too far ahead normally, I see it season-by-season or game-by-game.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.

I don't know what I'd do without my little black notebook.

I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.

Put all of your savings on autopilot, and you won't likely notice the missing cash.

This has been on the schedule for a long time. You don't get President Clinton on a 24-hour notice.

I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.