Quotes About Planning

We'd have to check into this another time— say, like, the next time we decided to break into a maximum-security prison. Mead, Richelle (2010-05-18). Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 138). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

Proverbially, no military plan survives contact with the enemy. That is never truer than when there is no plan to begin with.

The battle," Rommel famously observed, "is fought and decided by the quartermasters before the shooting begins.

and if you're not prepared, you better believe someone else will be. Your loss will be their gain.

So planning something big." "If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything like it." "It is," a voice said behind them. Maybeck slipped in alongside of them. "You about scared the pee out of me!" Charlene complained.

Life without a plan is a life without expectations.

Adventure is just bad planning.

I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.

The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food.

Most big decisions are made up of lots of much smaller decisions. Decisions take split-nanoseconds to make but can take years to prepare for. Reduce the weight and size of decisions by breaking them down, knowing you will make lots of good (small) ones and a few bad (small) ones, along your journey to success. So start making more (small) decisions.

Washing your best clothes on Tuesday so they'll be almost completely dry for the weekend.

One final tip before you get started: Set a goal and write it down. Whatever the goal, the important thing is that you set it, so you've got something for which to aim—and that you write it down. There is something magical about writing things down. So set a goal and write it down. When you reach that goal, set another and write that down. You'll be off and running.34

There are good reasons for the superiority of if/when-then plans: the specific sequencing of elements within the plans can help us defeat the traditional enemies of goal achievement. The "if/when-then" wording is designed to put us on high alert for a particular time or circumstance when a productive action could be performed. We become prepared, first, to notice the favorable time or circumstance and, second, to associate it automatically and directly with desired conduct.

The value of mapping is that it allows us to understand, plan, and communicate about some experience or phenomenon without having to actually "be there.

There's no problem with borrowing from the future in order to finance investments in the future.

Be Prepared in Mind by having disciplined yourself to be obedient to every order, and also by having thought out beforehand any accident or situation that might occur, so that you know the right thing to do at the right moment, and are willing to do it. Be Prepared in Body by making yourself strong and active and able to do the right thing at the right moment, and do it.

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."

What if your company has made a commitment to a certain database, or a certain web server, or a certain framework? A good architect pretends that the decision has not been made, and shapes the system such that those decisions can still be deferred or changed for as long as possible. A good architect maximizes the number of decisions not made.

Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.

The perfect kind of architecture decision is the one which never has to be made