Quotes About Planning

I've realized something today. No matter how hard you try to plan your life, life has a plan for you all on its own.

If you are not planning for success, then you are planning for failure.

Where you'll be tomorrow is decided by what you do today.

The challenging time of life will teach you two things, History: where did I get it wrong? and Future: How will I get it right?

Choose your life with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Useful lessons learnt today may not necessarily be of use to you today, save them for later. There always comes a time where you won't be able to eat and you'll live from what you had last night!

Proper preparation, prevents poor performance.

Living life.. is like building a house, you have to have a solid foundation before you begin to build or your whole structure will come tumbling down.

The lessons we learnt from our past actions are no doubt important to guide us. Similarly the plans we have for the future are also important to lead us to desired goals. But often we commit the mistake of allowing our past and future to nullify our present time!

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

Don't be too organized for your future. Life is unpredictable. Things change.

Short cuts make for long delays.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

If you can visualize the food on the plate before you start cooking, it means, inevitably, that you can be more precise with portions: how often have you prepared a roast dinner intended for six but ended up creating enough food for a dozen? Picture it on the plate first, and you'll not only get a better meal but save on waste as well—though do take into consideration the people who'll want second helpings.

He closed by telling us the real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.

the real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.

Aedificare diu cogitare oportet. Conserere cogitare non oportet, sed facere oportet. [Building requires long thought: planting requires not thought but action.]

Siquid desit in annum, uti paretur: quae supersint, ut veneant: quae opus sint locato, locentur: quae opera fieri velit et quae locari velit, uti imperet et ea scripta relinquat... Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet.

It's easy. Everybody else on the field, they look where the opposing line is. I look where they're going to be. Then I just head somewhere else." —BARRY ADAMS, RUNNING BACK FOR THE CHICAGO BEARS, ON HOW HE WAS ABLE TO RUSH 2,437 YARDS IN A SINGLE SEASON, SHATTERING THE PREVIOUS RECORD (2,105, BY ERIC DICKERSON IN 1984)

Look at a chessboard. Even the most elegant of wins required sacrifice.

Before beginning, prepare carefully

When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the present that had consumed him-each day with all its chores and never enough hours to do them.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.