Quotes About Planning

I tend to over-prepare my shot lists.

I read somewhere that people who make lists are more likely to achieve their ambitions.

Typically, whenever you're envisioning how you're going to shoot something, you have a location or a set that you're going to build, and it's going to be built to specifications.

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

I've got a long-term plan.

I think it's really important to have a long-term perspective.

America needs a long-term vision.

I know a manager doesn't ever have time to look long-term. You have to support everything with results.

Have a living will if you don't want long-term life support. It makes the decision easier for the family.

I always looked ahead.

Like I've said, I always want to be looking forward, but once you get too far ahead it's tough.

I think the main thing, you only get one career and you need to make the most money that you can, and any player will tell you that, you need to take care of yourself and look after yourself and your family and those around you.

I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

I'm not one of the guys that didn't know how to manage my money.

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.

At the end of every year our management regroups and thinks about things we did right and what we could improve.

I don't think managers have the opportunity to think in terms of a long-term vision for a club.

His confidences, this mist, had led us unexpectedly onto a peninsula of intimacy, and I found myself on the brink of telling what I had never told anyone before. The words flew ready-formed into my head, organized themselves instantly into sentences, long strings of sentences, bursting with impatience to fly from my tongue. As if they had spent years planning for this moment.

I pushed my pile of papers to one side, stroked Shadow and stared into the fire, longing for the comfort of a story where everything had been planned well in advance, where the confusion of the middle was invented only for my enjoyment, and where I could measure how far away the solution was by feeling the thickness of pages still to come. I had no idea how many pages it would take to complete the story of Emmeline and Adeline, nor even whether there would be time to complete it.

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

Is it awful to join in this planning? Is it trying to sell one's sister? But surely Rose can manage to fall in love with them — I mean, with whichever one will fall in love with her. I hope it will be Neil, because I really do think Simon is a little frightening — only it is Neil who thinks England is a joke.

Since the Leeburg Pike [at Tyson's Corner] carries six to eight lanes of fast-moving traffic and the mall lacks an obvious pedestrian entrance, I decided to negotiate the street in my car rather than on foot. This is a problem planners call the 'drive to lunch syndrome,' typical of edge nodes where nothing is planned in advance and all the development takes place in isolated 'pods'.

Ample women do not plan such things. They lack the guile for conspiracies of the body.