Quotes About Planning

I don't believe in development. I believe in pre-pre-production, so when I sit down with an idea for a movie, I'm thinking I'm going to make this film. I don't think about anything else.

Who is the architect? I am the architect.

Balzac's first works were written without any overall plan, but by 1830 the author began to group his first novels (e.g. Sarrasine, Gobseck) into a series entitled Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes from Private Life).

While dreaming of the fulfilment of his schemes, he always overlooked the means of attainment. "When my son has children," said his other, "he will want them born grown up.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

then had to decide which two-to-three-hour (with luck) block of time I could spend at the DMV. Waits at the DMV are shorter in the morning, and I hate standing in long lines or sitting in uncomfortable chairs next to people with screaming babies, so I opted to go some morning. I couldn't do it Monday morning because I had papers to grade. Tuesday I had to be teaching off campus all day. Wednesday there were faculty meetings and committee meetings

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.

Without identifying the overall destination of the journey, together with the strategic direction and the necessary compass adopted for reaching it, there can be no hope of success."8

Again we take our cue from Strunk and White: "Before beginning to compose something, gauge the nature and extent of the enterprise, and work from a suitable design…

survival mode. I was already thinking, Okay, what's next?

When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

Cuando llegue mañana, piensa los pensamientos de mañana.

If today brings no hope we should plan for tomorrow.

I always had, have and will continue to have the future in my mind.

Plan did I, perhaps too much, yet if not, how can one see where one is heading?

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

He who does not economize will have to agonize.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

He who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand.

A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Study the past if you would define the future.

A good general is ready for every option.

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it. ("New York Blues")