Quotes About Planning

I will do today what I can do to enable me to do tomorrow what I can't do today.

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.

If you want to get away with something, don't announce it first.

she says she is delighted to have twins because they will be such nice companions for each other. They will do everything together, of course. The only thing that worries her is that she does not see how she and Jack can possibly afford to send them both to Eton . . . and it would never do to send one and not the other. I suggest that she should leave the future to look after itself.

When we're young we make our beds and when we're older we have to lie on them. I'd make myself a comfortable bed if I were you—straight and tidy with the blankets well tucked in at the foot—then it'll not come adrift when you lie in it. If a bed's not properly made at the start the blankets'll maybe fall off in the night and you'll wake up shivering

That would be foolish," he said thoughtfully. " You see, Davie, if I was wanting a man to help me with the lambing I'd never wait until the lambing had started. I'd get him into the way of things before. He'd be some help to me then. It's the same with war. I'll need to learn to be a soldier before the fighting starts. That's the sensible way of doing.

It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.

From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.

If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources versus a centralized planning system, frequently referred to as communism or socialism, the network approach does much better when it's applied accurately.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

If you're 35, 45, or even 55 - you have a very long time horizon - 40 years or vastly more. That is you, and/or your spouse, are likely to live about that long, and you'll be investing the whole way.

There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.

I've always been a strategy kind of guy. I like laying things out and having a plan. Maybe not always a plan, but an approach and a vibe.

I'm always living at least a year ahead of where I'm really at, and that can really lead you to some negative thoughts and some bad vibes.

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

I was never the type who had a particular ambition. I had friends in college who would say, 'I want to be a vice president by the time I'm 35 years old.' A lot of people had these career plans. I didn't have any. I thought if I did my best, good things would happen.

The most valuable advice I can give is plan for your success. Write down your ideal goal, creating checkpoints for yourself along the way that align with the end goal. Set up rewards for achieving both little victories and big ones.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.