Quotes About Planning

widening a city's streets in the name of safety is like distributing handguns to deter crime. Just

today engineers acknowledge that building

Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.

Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.

Looking at your day from a "golden day" perspective helps you prioritize.

Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow—for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up.

Having money saved is not quite the same thing as having a plan, mind you—but it does start to make a girl feel as though a plan could someday be possible.

The Balinese don't wait and see how things go. That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.

The emergency that always gets you in the end is the one you didn't prepare for.

Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow—for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up." So

Next," she said, "we have to come up with tactics that work." "We could just do something stupid again, wait for them to pounce, and then surprise them by suddenly becoming brilliant," Martin said.

My point is that if you want something to happen, you must specify that something with great care and as much completeness as possible. Then, and only then, can you devise a strategy to accomplish what you really want—all of it—and not some little bit that turns out to be meaningless when everything else falls apart.

Whether the future looks scary or bright, plans are hopes made practical. They reassure people that there's a roadmap that will take them to a better place and they give people a reason to join in the effort to get there.

Plans are the essential means by which we chart a course for our collective future.

We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more.

From studying the outcome of past expeditions, he believed that those that burdened themselves with equipment to meet every contingency had fared much worse than those that had sacrificed total preparedness for speed.

By the end of July, 1914, however, everything had been collected, tested, and stowed aboard the Endurance.

I don't let my thoughts plan on anything, even their completion. I once tried to select some way to be.

0001 knew what would happen. If everything went the way she planned it to go and if each part of this giant machine she's assembled performed her role effectively, she knew very well where the knife would wind up, but how did she know Harris Blanchard would be there?

ingeniously left a forty-mile gap in the

But politics was a bit like chess: you had to move with an eye on the whole board, with a 360-degree view of what would come next and the move after that.

Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.

You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really have to be here...." The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with baited breath, the boy beside Kat whispered, "I could go make some calls... check on some things..." "Play some blackjack?" "Well, when in Rome..." "Rome is tomorrow, babe," Kat reminded him. He nodded. "Right.