Quotes About Planning

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

he who will not economize will have to agonize

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Success depends upon previous preparation.

Omul care nu se gândeste sau nu prevede lucrurile îndepartate are necazuri aproape

The Master replied, "The person who would wrestle a tiger bare-handed or march across the Yellow River,106 and who would go to his death without regret—this person I would not take along. It would have to be someone who would approach any situation with trepidation, and who would be fond of planning with an eye to success.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow.

What are you going to do? Go to sleep. I mean long range. I'm talking long range.

We don't care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you're going to do tomorrow.

Then a learning jumps to mind, that once you plan to do something, and figure how long it'll take, that's exactly how long Fate gives you before the next thing comes along to do.

Chronic threat and stress damage regions of the brain that are involved in planning and the pursuit of goals. The principle is clear: powerlessness undermines the individual's ability to contribute to society (Principle 19). On Kayo Drive, this could be seen in the difficulties kids had sitting still and concentrating, in their bad grades, and in the depressions so common among their parents. Powerlessness robs people of their promise for making a difference in the world.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Good Working Habit No. 2: Do Things in the Order of Their Importance.

I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking.

good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns. I

Foresee how you are going to begin when the mind is fresh to grasp every word you utter. Foresee what impression you are going to leave last—when nothing else follows to obliterate it.

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.

Deje las cosas para más adelante.

This would require moving a million tons of earth, and Leonardo calculated the man-hours necessary by doing a detailed time-and-motion study, one of the first in history. He figured out everything from the weight of one shovel-load of dirt (twenty-five pounds) to how many shovel-loads would fill a wheelbarrow (twenty). His answer: it would take approximately 1.3 million man-hours, or 540 men working 100 days, to dig the Arno diversion ditch.

Visions without execution are hallucinations.31

To succeed at any ambitious project, you had to assess all of the intricate ramifications of an action, weigh probabilities, share information, organize people, and more.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do," he said. "That's true for companies, and it's true for products.