Quotes About Planning

Every action in the present prepare us for the future.

Life is like one big blueprint, if you don't make plans then your future will not be built

Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn't time to execute the plans well enough.

Managing a goal is the best way to guarantee reaching it.

I visualized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly what type of player I wanted to become.

This is a bride's book, from bride to bride. If you're not a bride, you're reading Weddiculous because: • You've entertained the idea of engagement and plan to leave this book out so your partner sees it and gets a motherfucking clue. • You never want to plan a wedding, or had one and hated it, and want to laugh at my pain. • There's cake on the cover, and you like cake.

Is it okay to be scared?" Of course. You should be. It's scary. Wedding planning is The Conjuring for Basic Bitches. And marriage itself is The Shining: Terrifying, but also a well-respected classic.

Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.

Neither the city planners nor the traffic planners put city space and city life high on their agenda, and for years there was hardly any knowledge about how physical structures influence human behavior. The drastic consequences of this type of planning on people's use of the city were not recognized until later.

The diagram shows three streets with heavy, moderate and light

For decades the human dimension has been an overlooked and haphazardly addressed urban planning topic, while many other issues, such as accomodating the rocketing rise in car traffic, have come more strongly into focus. In addition, dominant planning ideologies — modernism in particular — have specifically put a low priority on public space, pedestrianism and the role of city space as a meeting place for urban dwellers.

It has been almost 50 years since American journalist and author Jane Jacobs published her seminal book The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961.1 She pointed out how the dramatic increase in car traffic and the urban planning ideology of modernism that separates the uses of the city and emphasizes free-standing individual buildings would put an end to urban space and city life and result in lifeless cities devoid of people.

The notion of whether there would be some kind of organization in this potluck deal? Shouldn't somebody get on the phone and call the guest list? What if they ended up with too many deviled eggs? 'There is no such thing as too many deviled eggs,' said Cynthia.

We're not thinking what if,' he said. 'We're thinkin' when.

The way you build your bed is how you will sleep in it",

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The harvest was a wild living thing that you were trying to tame while all the while it was dragging you behind, arms out, flailing, in the chase. But here was the miracle: Despite the chaos, the lack of planning, the bad feeling between Sherwood and my father, there was also an overriding unity of purpose, a reverence for the family history, a love for the soil within the property lines.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

His aim was the creation of self sufficient small towns,really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of your own and did not mind spending your life with others with no plans of their own. As in all Utopias, the right to have plans of any significance belonged only to the planner in charge. - discussing Ebenezer Howards' Garden City

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

Dig your well for yourself, and also for the people who will follow along after you.

I slept in a bedin a room with paintingson the walls, andplanned another dayjust like this day.But one day, I know,it will be otherwise.