Quotes About Planning

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

Design no longer leads back towards a divine origin, because once shifted into cybernetics it ceases to commensurate with the theopolitical ideal of the plan. Planning is the creationist symptom of underdesigned software circuits, associated with domination, tradition, and inhibition; with everything that shackles the future to the past. All planning is theopolitics, and theopolitics is cybernetics in a swamp. (298-9)

When I see something I desire, I take it. When it is out of my reach, I plan, meticulously, how I may obtain it. And when there is a trophy that everyone claims is unreachable, it only makes me want it more. And I achieve it.

Hild liked listening to her mother planning to build, rather than destroy or take. It felt as comforting as a larder full of food with only a month til spring. It made her feel safe, that their web, their weft and warp, was wide and strong.

I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.

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

There are no unrealistic dreams, just unrealistic timelines.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

The key to scheduling your time is to focus on objectives, not on activities.

Never fight tomorrow's fight today,

The Harada Method Steps Set Your Long-Term Goal Set Milestone Goals Believe in Yourself Determine Service to Others Find Your Purpose Analyze Yourself Create Your 64-Chart with Eight Areas to Achieve Your Goal Task Start Dates Select 10 Tasks to Start Select 10 Routines Determine Your Resource Needs Select Support People Use Your Routine Check Sheet Keep a Daily Diary Write Affirmations Achieve Self-Reliance

The reasons why people cannot achieve their goals are not because they lack abilities or character, but because they are setting their goals in a wrong way and trying to achieve them in a wrong way. " – Takashi Harada

This is where you should start.  Develop a total system for continuous improvement not just going after the flavor of the month: six sigma, kaizen blitz, etc.  They are all good tools but you should plan what the entire 'ship' you will build looks like before you start using the tools to build it.

All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

You're not successful now because of what you planned 10 years ago, but you will not be the same if you plan well for the next 10 years from now-Nyanzi Live

Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling—something

Respect God: Pray working. Pray learning, planning, doing. Pray creating, teaching, reaching. Pray working. Pray to focus your thoughts, still your fears, strengthen your purpose. Respect God. Shape God. Pray working. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

We're fifteen! What can we do?' 'We can get ready. That's what we've got to do now. Get ready for what's going to happen, get ready to survive it, get ready to make a life afterward. Get focused on arranging to survive so that we can do more than just get batted around by crazy people, desperate people, thugs, and leaders who don't know what they're doing!

Eighty percent of an Agency brain is devoted to repercussions and possible futures, even when you're just thinking about moving in with your boyfriend.

God created man with eyes in the front, not the back of the head, and that means we've got to think about what's to come, not what has been.

In their heads they perform mute examinations of conscience: Do they have everything, passport, ticket, and papers, have they exchanged money. And where is it they're going. And what for.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1 000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.