Quotes About Planning

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

I don't have a set target on the number of films I should do in a year.

As a manager, when you can't get your first target do you go and spend on your second, third, fourth choice?

It is easy to claim that we will score 450 or 500 runs but to achieve this target an entire process is required.

Setting targets is very important in my life; I always have targets to fulfil.

As a captain, I don't have long-term targets in my mind as it is better to go with short targets.

Your to-do list should include items that need to be accomplished for the month, the week, and each day. You must then ask yourself how much time you need to block off to achieve each task. Time blocking allows you to minimize distractions and to maximize your efficiency as you work to complete this list.

But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

Strategic Work is all about the big questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Tactical Work is all about answers: This is the system we use to do each task. This is how we do it, how we measure it, how we monitor it.

As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

We don't outline, so we don't have prospective tasks to divide up. It's just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene through, write it up, proceed to the next.

We can have all of the best ideas in the world, but if we do not have a system to get our tasks completed, we will fail.

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.

With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family.

Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

Creating a system that makes birth control accessible for everyone not only helps women plan for their futures, and lessen the risk of poverty by preventing pregnancy, but it also saves taxpayers money.

If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.

I make fun of one of my teammates because she's like, I'm going to retire.' And that was after the Beijing Olympics. I don't know. I don't want to put all of my eggs in that basket because who knows what the future holds.

I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I'm glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It's hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.