Quotes About Planning

Good luck will be the residue of good design.

Don't you love it when a plan comes together?" Carl

La vida es eso. Sembrar relaciones de mutua utilidad. Una buena agenda es el mejor amigo del hombre.

Long-term rational planning drops off the chart when men are thinking about women. It's how they're wired. Of course, we're not all that rational about them sometimes

We heads of state really prefer to have some sort of an agenda before we sit down at the high-stakes table, you know. All bad novelists notwithstanding, surprise and improvisation are not the best basis for successful diplomacy!

Many believe that WMATA planned a station for Georgetown, then withdrew its plans in response to opposition from politically influential residents who feared that the subway would bring undesirables—the poor, the criminal, the nonwhite, and the tacky—to their exclusive neighborhood. In fact, although Georgetown residents did oppose a transit station, their attitude was essentially irrelevant, for a Georgetown station was never seriously considered.

While theories are a necessary aspect of planning, their true danger comes when we forget how often individuals, businesses, and nations defy the prototypes we assign them.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government.

Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.

I don't want projects to take 10 years to set up. That adds to the cost.

Before I got married, I used to start prepping up for Diwali almost a month in advance.

I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

Any woman in any career has to think about when they have children, if they want to have children, and how it's going to affect their career.

If I find what I like, maybe in about five years we'll be able to afford to build a home in the country.

I know that I won't be an athlete forever. I have to have a vision of what I want to be afterward.

I think my agents take care of my future.

When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.

Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.