Quotes About Planning

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

A goal is a dream with a timeframe on it.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.

I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals.

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away.

Good planning is the foundation of success for almost any project. Start by getting clear on your goal.

Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results.

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

When setting a long-term goal, find the pace necessary to achieve it.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.

A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.