Quotes About Planning

Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.

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Qui non est hodie eras minus aptus erit. He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.

I gave it up. The man annoyed me. I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie, but I was dashed if I could see why he couldn't do it with a bright and cheerful smile.

How much risk should civil engineers design for? If the answer is zero risk, then nothing would ever be built.

Defeat is the test of the great man. Your true general is not he who rides to triumph on the tide of an easy victory, but the one who, when crushed to earth, can bend himself to the task of planning methods of rising again.

All his life he had had a horror of definite appointments. An invitation to tea a week ahead had been enough to poison life for him. He was one of those young men whose souls revolt at the thought of planning out any definite step. He could do things on the spur of the moment, but plans made him lose his nerve.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

The ability to accept and adapt gracefully to life's twists and turns is one of the greatest skills you'll learn. Should you plan for the things you want? Absolutely. But if you're not exactly where you wanted to be, exactly when you wanted to be there, don't sweat it.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty-year master plan. A fifty-year master plan will change how you look at the opportunities in the present." WALT DISNEY

And what is a futurist? Not a fortune-teller or a soothsayer, not a reader of tea leaves or crystal balls. A futurist is a planner and a doer. Futurists look at trends and innovation. They look for patterns of change. Then they act. Futurists don't just predict the future. They make the future happen.

You really try to evaluate the risks and provide for them. Whether it's going to be a pleasant or unpleasant surprise, you try to evaluate the risk.

possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.

So I banish about ninety per cent of my worries by taking these four steps: Writing down precisely what I am worrying about. Writing down what I can do about it. Deciding what to do. Starting immediately to carry out that decision.

Writing down precisely what I am worrying about. Writing down what I can do about it. Deciding what to do. Starting immediately to carry out that decision.

Whether in war or peace, the chief difference between good thinking and bad thinking is this: good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.

Será que o Dr. Olsen queria dizer que não deveríamos fazer nenhum esforço para nos prepararmos para o amanhã? Não. De modo algum. Ele afirmou que a melhor maneira de se preparar para o futuro é concentrando toda a sua inteligência e todo o seu entusiasmo em executar maravilhosamente hoje o trabalho de hoje. Essa é a única maneira de se preparar para o futuro.

Not at all. But he did go on in that address to say that the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today.

The art of war is a science in which nothing succeeds which has not been calculated and thought out.

Here is question No. 1—What am I worrying about? (Please pencil the answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 2—What can I do about it? (Please write your answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 3—Here is what I am going to do about it. Question No. 4—When am I going to start doing it?

Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

prepare to cultivate the habit of life of 'day-tight compartments'.

Get your principles right, said Napoleon, and the rest is a matter of detail.

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.