Quotes About Planning

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

Prayerfully setting goals, putting them in writing, sharing them with others, and determining the specific things we need to do to make them happen is just the beginning. Then, as David told Solomon when he gave him the blueprints for the temple, we must "be strong and courageous and get to work. Don't be frightened by the size of the task, for the Lord my God is with you; he will not forsake you. He will see to it that everything is finished correctly" (1 Chron. 28: 20).

Structure not only increases our chance of success, it makes us more efficient at it.

inside each of us are two separate personas. There's the leader/planner/manager who plans to change his or her ways. And there's the follower/doer/employee who must execute the plan.

the future is always more important than the past.

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

Please calm yourselves and stop talking. Plan A01: Rain Destruction has been superseded by Plan B01: Distract and Extract.

so the plan had been to get into the hostile ship through its lock and then run around getting shot and murdering my way through whoever was aboard until I could get control. (I hadn't used those exact words during the planning process with Indah and Aylen, but we all knew what we were talking about.)

If you can get today's work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can't possibly get tomorrow's work done tomorrow, then you lose.

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be all day

Just as warfare has often served as inspiration for wargames, so wargames can be, and often have been, played not just by amateurs (from the Latin amatores, lovers) for their own sake but by the military for training, planning, and preparation too. To the extent that they allow and force players to strategize, indeed, they are not merely the best form of training but the only available one.

All victories have their foundation in careful preparation.

A good multitasker always sets aside time at the end of the day to review what has happened today, and based on what must happen tomorrow, creates a plan of attack for the next day.

Specifically, what are you going to do to deal with that matter? What are your action items here? What are your ideas about solving that problem? When will you carry out that plan? Keep the questions you-oriented so that

Over the years I have learned that when I need answers to deal with crises, people, and issues, I must go to God. God will help us in everything we do if we stay in tune and if we will call on him. We must each plan our future with him in our homes, our families, and our relationships with others. If we make him our senior partner, our lives can be successful.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.