Quotes About Planning

Any fool can raise an army, but you start running into trouble around suppertime.

One second after an EMP attack, it will be too late to ask two simple questions: what should we have done to prevent the attack and why didn't we do it?

Future? Homer said. He was a little embarrassed because all his life, from day to day, he had been busy mapping out a future, even if it was only a future for the next day. Well, he said, I don't know for sure, but I guess I'd like to be somebody some day.

Now that we have run out of money we have to think.

Human beings were blind, crazy creatures, he thought, forever walking the tightrope of the present condemned to ever changing shifts and expedients to maintain the balance of existence, not knowing even as far ahead as tomorrow what the actions of today would bring. How could one plan a year ahead, how influence the imponderables?

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Silence is the secret of war.' —PRIOR

It is a joke in Britain to say that the War Office is always preparing for the last war. But this is probably true of other departments and of other countries, and it was certainly true of the French Army.

The best method of acquiring flexibility is to have three or four plans for all the probable contingencies, all worked out with the utmost detail. Then it is much easier to switch from one to the other as and where the cat jumps.

Although general staffs present the results of their labours in simple and precise assertions, these are no sure foundations upon which to make intricate plans depending upon a few days or a few divisions one way or another.

The best method of acquiring flexibility is to have three or four plans for all the probable contingencies, all worked out with the utmost detail.

democracies are apt to think with their hearts rather than with their heads, and a general's business is, or should be, to use his head for planning.

We have always sent two-thirds of what was necessary a month too late.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

If you want to have a future, don't do anything with no future in it.

Moving a zoo is like moving a city.

You don't start with today and aim toward your goal. You start with the goal, and aim back toward today. Do it like that, and you'll always find a way.

I was never a planner, but to wait is to plan, or it is itself some sort of plan. Actions move us swiftly into the irrevocable, but to wait keeps the irrevocable at a distance.

Thinking about drinking now was like fantasizing about the perfect crime. How he would do it—if he were going to do it.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journeys end, we should lay in the more provision for it?

unusually clumsy and I nearly drop the phone into the footwell. I've been planning my long weekend to Edinburgh with the girls for months, and tonight, just as I was about to leave the office, my boss Andrew announces

But all the structures and all the diversity planning put in place to alter those structures, and all the desires of whites to assimilate blacks in their day-to-day lives, come with the continued outrage at rage. All

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.