Quotes About Planning

The problem that this amount of random activity causes is that it's not just what gets done that is random – what doesn't get done is random too. This means that whether something gets done or not is as much a matter of chance as of rational decision.

The next time you catch yourself running on that transactional hamster wheel, try something different. Stop what you're doing, and sit down. Take a breath. And say to yourself: "What would I like to be doing with my life this time next year?" or "What do I need more or less of in my life right now?" or "If my kids looked at me 20 years from now, what would make them proud of me?

If you have a setback, instead of beating yourself to death for making a mistake, convert your self-contempt into self-determination. Ask yourself what you would do if you could do it over again. Develop a plan of action for the next time the situation arises.

By the late 1940s, then, city planners based their work on several key assumptions. Decentralization was the source of urban disruption and decay. They would have to slow or reverse the process while the remainder of the city, especially the central business district, was rebuilt. Freeway construction, at whatever scale, was the play a role in the redevelopment and recentralizing process.

Put another way, road engineers had relied on the supposedly apolitical principles of highway building as their major form of political expression.

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Live like a student while you are in school, so you don't have to live like a student after you graduate.

fact, there is a strong element of intentionality here on the part of leaders in forming prison policy. At high levels of planning officials have even advocated procedures for breaking down inmates, making them especially vulnerable to the routinizing of time. They

Because using classes well requires some up-front planning, they tend to be of more interest to people who work in strategic mode (doing long-term product development) than to people who work in tactical mode (where time is in very short supply).

the biggest driver of project success rates, it seems, is the clarity of strategic focus before any ideas are developed.

Rigid plans work best if you're building a skyscraper; with something as mysteriously human as giving birth, it's best, both literally and figuratively, to keep your knees bent.

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

But I... never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.

always schedule your comeback.

I try to hook you up every day. What's the point of calendars without dates?

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

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If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.