Quotes About Planning

prospective hindsight" to work backward from a certain future—they are better at generating explanations for why the event might happen.

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

Plans are useful in the sense that they're proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. Bus as for the plans themselves they just don't work on the battle field

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

What is the nature of life? Life is lines of dominoes falling. One thing leads to another, and then another, just like you'd planned. But suddenly a Domino gets skewed, events change direction, people dig in their heels, and you're faced with a situation that you didn't see coming, you who thought you were so clever.

Yes, there is something a little defeatist about accepting one's slacking ways rather than trying to fix them. That's a worry, though, for another month. The healthiest, most productive approach to writing is to acknowledge your weak spots early on, and build a writing plan that plays to your strengths and works around your liabilities.

Count nothing lost; even the day that sees "no worthy action done" may be a day of preparation and accumulation that will add greatly to the achievements of tomorrow. Many a day was made famous because nothing was done the day before.

Thanks to the growing use of contraceptives, population expansion is slowing down, though not as much as it should.

If you're disorganized, you risk losing everything.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

We start our journey to our dreams by wanting, but we arrive by focusing, planning and learning.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

St Michael's RC secondary sat on a promontory overlooking the town of Auchenlea. The choice of site was an indirect consequence of a past mistake in vocational guidance, leading someone who had a pathological hatred of children into town planning, rather than the more traditional field of teaching.

tendency to seize upon the most optimistic timetable for completing a project and ignore any information that might make you revise that prediction. According

If we don't have a plausible plan for making revolution we can be sure that there will be somebody else there who will.

We planned this beautiful, totally natural, unmedicated delivery. What kind of stupid-ass idea is that? Next time I want the epidural at the moment of conception. Numb for nine months.

But if you are going to do something properly you have to plan ahead or you will end up cutting the moment wrong. Then events will be all wrinkled and puckered.

It's hard to find a woman without tactics. That'll be why I made one up.

Life, I feel, becomes unnecessarily stressful if you're rushing all the time, when a little planning can ensure that you arrive on time, unfazed

When you have some distance from the incident, a next step might be to pitch your idea again down the road to your boss or to another manager. Brainstorm with a trusted colleague on how you might go about doing that. After you process the upset, move on.

No plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main force.

Next, think about likely questions or interruptions, and rehearse your responses. Then think of additional questions or interruptions, and how you would handle them.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.