Quotes About Planning

We need to settle a few things before tomorrow." "We sure do." Rylan suspected they wanted to talk about different things.

Nixon sent some no-account underling to tell us that he had done more for the American Indian than any predecessor and that he saw no reason for our coming to Washington, that he had more important things to do than to talk with us—presumably surreptitiously taping his visitors and planning Watergate. We wondered what all these good things were that he had done for us.

It's much more efficient to prevent problems than clean them up.

I'm guessing they planned to kill your whole family once you gave them everything they needed.

prior planning prevents poor performance. Andrew would

In most, but not all, families, adopted toddlers bonded sooner with siblings who were at least four years older than they were than they did with close-age siblings. It was no surprise that families who took time to include their children in the adoption process, planning, and transition of the new toddler sibling reported a much more satisfactory adjustment.

I was gradually learning as a teacher why teachers' colleges were wrong to spend so much time on planning. The most important thing to learn was to be able to throw the plan away, whatever it was. What was necessary was to listen, to follow each minute to its peak, learning as you went.

There are few endeavors in which it is more important to keep options open than in software development. In Chapter 3, "Decide as Late as Possible

We determine scope at the beginning of system development, put a box around it, and figure out how long that scope will take to develop. This is the wrong approach.

As Pat and I made travel plans, we simply couldn't believe Diana had remembered us and invited us to what was already being called "the wedding of the century.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

Plan your work, work your plan.

We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.

great plot twists of life will arrange themselves as they see fit, regardless of how much fretting and planning one does in advance. This is not cause for alarm. Quite the opposite; it is a comforting reminder that worrying serves little purpose. Worse, it takes up valuable time that could be better spent reading novels, taking walks in a shaded park, having friends over for tea and biscuits, and any number of equally pleasant pursuits.

When is Simawoo coming?

Look, Lumawoo! We are packing for our trip.

Change is an intrinsic and everlasting condition of all configurations, regardless of human desire, will, or planning. Thus, uncertainty is a vital part of our lives. It is not something external or temporal. Uncertainty is not a problem that needs to be corrected but rather a condition to be prepared for and accepted. One can bear or react to uncertainty passively or embrace it and deal with it in an active and spontaneous way.

Do today what will profit you tomorrow. Avoid forever what did not profit you yesterday.

Today is tomorrow's stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder.

I regret my financial mismanagement.

We are being taught to think of a time different to the time we are in. Exam time. Job time. When-we-are-grown-up time.

And Nora smiled as she stared at all the pieces she still had left in play, thinking about her next move.

One initial proposal I wanted to put to them was to swap things over. For instance, have five fun days and two not-fun days. That way – call me a mathematical genius – they would have more fun.

A fragmented task takes more time than a blocked-time task.