Quotes About Planning

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

A life well lived requires careful planning in order to balance the financial and the non-financial, the economic and the psychological, the rational and the emotional. Getting

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

Imagine this opportunity as an amazingly attractive but fast-moving river. There is so much that looks extremely appealing about this river, you're going to be tempted to jump right in. But once you are in the river, you have diminished your ability to make decisions. That river is moving so fast that it will take you where it is going. And if you haven't carefully traced out in advance whether you want to go through and to the places that river flows, you'll be in trouble.

Believing God has purposed our days will save us from the trouble of stepping into plans that aren't meant for us.

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good for tomorrow.

Instead of waiting for the time to get started to simply appear one day, we need to be intentional with scheduling it.

no matter how well I plan things, I can't control them. No matter how well I think I know the people in my life, I can't control them. No matter how well I follow the rules, do what's right, and seek to obey God with my whole heart, I can't control my life. I can't control God.

We will live reactive lives instead of proactive.

Kahn and Cerf had already started planning it out: a completely rewritten version of the existing Arpanet protocol that they called TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol.

Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny were starting to plan a campus-wide time-sharing system for much the same reason; the effort would eventually lead them to create an interactive programming language that they would call BASIC.

TOP TEN RESOLUTION PITFALLS 1. Being vague about what you want 2. Not making a serious commitment 3. Procrastinating and excuse making—no time, wrong time, dog ate my homework 4. Being unwilling to go through the awkward phase 5. Not setting up a tracking and reminder system 6. Expecting perfection, falling into guilt, shame, regret 7. Trying to go it alone 8. Telling yourself self-limiting rut stories 9. Not having backup plans 10. Turning slip-ups to give-ups

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

When are you going to stop thinking about things that don't matter and start thinking about what lies ahead for you?

It is important to remember that actions taken today depend largely on expectations about the future.

We see long-term planning as necessary and deliberation as a virtue, but when we decide that action is urgently needed, our tolerance for delay disappears.

After I had chased the ghastliness of Fancha out of my mind, I settled down to some planning. A trip out to Leavenworth had a deceptive plausibility.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. —GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUIS OF HALIFAX

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. [State of the Union Address January 11 1962]

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

Bu yüzden plan yapamay?z. Dünyan?n bir makine deÄŸil, bir organizma olduÄŸunu biliriz. Ak?ll?ca yarat?lm?? bir dünyan?n onu yaratandan ba??ms?z olmas? gerektiÄŸini de biliriz; planlanm?? (planland???n? iyice aç?k eden bir dünya) ölü bir dünyad?r. Karakterlerimiz ve olaylar?m?z ancak bize kar?? ç?kmaya baÅŸlad?klar?nda canlan?rlar.

Questions that begin with "When" lead to procrastination.