Quotes About Planning

You must plan, and you must train, for the battle you don't want to fight, against the enemy you don't want to face, on the ground you don't want to defend. Then, and only then, do you have a credible deterrent.

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.

These poor beasts are driven solely by their need to survive and to feed. It is their nature, and their nature has made them predictable. But man, on the other hand, has the capacity to change his nature. Man is the only animal that can destroy the world. Beasts live only in the present, but humans have the capacity to live for the future, to lay down plans for their children and grandchildren, plans that can take years, decades, even centuries, to mature.

She likes to use the word "realistically" which I come to realize is a rationale, an excuse, to not plan ahead because much of what she might want for herself, upon reflection does not seem realistic.

Always be wary of grabbing material at the cost of the coordination of your pieces.

Hope is not a design method.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. —ATTRIBUTED TO WAYNE GRETZKY

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and quitting time.

Powerful Leaders plan from the heart; 1st the WHY in their passion, 2nd the HOW it could unfold, 3rd the WHAT wins they will celebrate!

trying to win without consideration, plan, or clear goals had, in the course of the administration's first nine months, resulted in almost nothing but losses.

The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he's the budget director," said Mulvaney. And in Mulvaney's telling Trump was too scattershot to ever be of much help, tending to interrupt planning with random questions that seem to have come from someone's recent lobbying or by some burst of free association.

He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

Jesus tells us in Luke 14:28 that before we undertake anything we should count the cost. Usually price is advertised, but cost is hidden.

But there is nothing interesting about being unprepared.

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

Running out of time and being timeless are two different things. Running out of time leads you into a mess and timelessness releases all your stress. Let your time be well prioritized, be ahead of time, become timeless and get MickeyMized.

The murders were more deed-focused than process-focused. The actual murder of the victim and setting him alight was much more important to the killer than meticulous planning or an attempt to conceal the bodies.

For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.