Quotes About Planning

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

I've always talked and like to organise as much as possible.

The film business talks a lot. People talk a lot. There's a lot of chatting. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes chatting. There's a lot of talking before you go and do it.

Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.

To me, the real opinion polls are the tangible facts: the growing creation of jobs, the number of planning permissions, the number of commercial vans being sold - the signs that the Irish people are regaining confidence.

First, you should take money and have plenty of money fueling your tank. But money becomes dangerous if you assume it's going to keep coming. Make sure you can get your burn rate to a sustainable level if you hit the brakes hard, within 90 days.

Life offers two great gifts--time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

Procrastination is the thief of dreams

Any fool can attack an army and die. A wise man doesn't plan an attack; he plans a victory.

Those who fail to plan are planning to fail.

Unfortunately, most women's closets are more organized than their finances.

As much as I have schemed and planned to the contrary, the most central experinces of my life have all been accidents.

it's best we not keep all our eggs in one basket.

Know your enemy. Know the terrain. Know the conditions under which the battle will be fought.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

The zone plan drafted by Whitten and published by the Atlanta City Planning Commission in 1922 explained that "race zoning is essential in the interest of the public peace, order and security and will promote the welfare and prosperity of both the white and colored race.

Luck was a luxury, not the basis for a business. Luck had to be a "nice to have," not a "need to have.

He knows that when you snap a mast it's time to get a set of oars or learn how to breathe underwater. Rely on one thing too long and when it disappears and you have nothing–well, that's just bad planning. It's embarrassing, to think it could never happen. It happens.

Conditions plus principles determine strategy.

PLANS HAVE TO BE REALISTIC; DREAMS DON'T