Quotes About Planning

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.

I was planning on this being something worth mentioning, energy invested in someone I saw potential in

I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

In planning a war, the most important task is to understand what can be planned and what cannot.

The evidence points, first of all, to the importance of developing visions of the future.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Things do not always happen as one plans. There are many disappointments in life. There is always the unexpected. You plan carefully, you decide on one step after another, and then...well, that is life. We are not God. So you see, one cannot afford to be weighed down by the unexpected. You will find that only determination will bring one through, sheer determination. And faith in God. Don't ever neglect your prayers....

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

My motto is "Be Prepared." I am told this is also the motto of the Boy Scouts, but, if so, this only proves that they were acting according to my motto earlier than I.

was built with London's Docklands in mind and marketed as an "urban village," but has failed to

It is a good idea to start the year by writing down exactly what you want to accomplish, and end the year by measuring how much you have accomplished. McKinsey imposes this discipline on its partners and pays them according to how many of the things on their lists they accomplish. Leadership

He said that more businesses die from indigestion than starvation. I have observed the truth of that advice many times since then.

Maintaining order rather than correcting disorder is the ultimate principle of wisdom. To cure disease after it has appeared is like digging a well when one feels thirsty, or forging weapons after the war has already begun. —NEI JING, 2ND CENTURY BC

Mantener el orden en lugar de corregir el desorden es el principio máximo de la sabiduría. Curar la enfermedad después de que ha aparecido es como cavar un pozo cuando uno tiene sed, o forjar armas después de que la guerra ha comenzado. NEI JING, siglo II d. C.

Ordnung zu halten, statt Unordnung aufzuräumen, ist das Grundprinzip der Weisheit. Eine Krankheit zu heilen, nachdem sie aufgetreten ist, ist wie einen Brunnen zu graben, wenn man Durst hat, oder Waffen zu schmieden, wenn der Krieg bereits ausgebrochen ist. – Nei Jing, 2. Jh. v. Chr.

It's not Don't kill your host. It's Don't burn your bridges until after you've crossed them.

Schedule blocks of time for different modes of thinking.

As a result of economic change and family planning, fertility rates dropped precipitously during the nineteenth century. The number of children for white American women sank from more than 7 in 1800 to fewer than 6 by 1825, 5.42 by 1850, 4.24 by 1880, to 3.54 by 1900.

Step 1. Set your investment destination Step 2. Identify the steps necessary to reach that destination Step 3. Take action By

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.

Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine," Viennese player Rudolf Spielmann would later advise. Even