Quotes About Planning

Spells? Mistrust them. Mind is the spell which governs earth and heaven. Man has a mind with which to plan his safety. Know that, and help thyself. Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene II

An individual who is financially educated can tell the difference between financial choices that are beneficial and detrimental to his financial future.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do in a week.

The most important things are almost never urgent. That's why it's essential that we schedule them.

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If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining

Never take long-range plans seriously. Use them for general guidance as long as they seem to be taking you where you want to go, but whatever you do, don't get stuck with them. Throw them in the trash heap as soon as something better comes along.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes upshe is almost fifty years old.Time to start planning her retirement cottage.

1. "Do Your Worrying Before You Place Your Bet, Not After the Wheel Starts Turning

When will your wedding be?" "We haven't set a date yet." "What of your dress?" "I'm sure I shall wear one.

Nothing is easy in life. No plans were ever unhindered.

He wished he knew how they did it. Even planning for the next day was beyond his capabilities. He didn't understand how to think that way, how to plan, and he wanted to. He wanted to understand how people mapped out their lives, how they went so easily through a day. How they managed to keep from destroying the people around them, destroying themselves. He looked down at his arm, at the too-smooth stump, the thick pink ridge of scar. Christ, how did they do it? How did Genie do it?

I'M SCURRYING AROUND THE HOUSE, TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT I should pack (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) and what I should leave behind (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) when I'm stopped in my tracks by the lowing and braying of the animals in the barn.

I'M SCURRYING AROUND THE HOUSE, TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT I should pack (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) and what I should leave behind (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) when I'm stopped in my tracks by the lowing and braying of the animals in the barn. Someone's coming. Again.

Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make only one plan; this will increase the possibility of success! On the edge of a precipice, if your second plan is a parachute on your back, your possibility of falling will increase! When you have nothing to trust, you will be safer, because you have no right to make any mistake!

Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good.

It takes real planning to organize this kind of chaos.

Was he even planning on coming to meet me? Or did he change his mind at the last minute? Did he decide he liked me better at a distance? That meeting the real me would ruin his fantasy? And what about my fantasy? That there was a real man out there who saw me. A man who couldn't stop thinking about me. A man who made me feel like a woman worthy of being obsessed about.

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

Nothing wrong with taking time to figure out your life and make sure you really like where your life is going. I mean, it's better to do it now than when it's too late.

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.