Quotes About Planning

Most people believe that they are in fact aware of the future, that they are planning and thinking ahead. They are usually deluded: What they are really doing is succumbing to their desires, to what they want the future to be.

To separate yourself from the mechanical and reactive types, you need to get rid of a common misconception: the essence of strategy is not to carry out a brilliant plan that proceeds in steps; it is to put yourself in situations where you have more options than the enemy does.

The best strategy is always to be very strong first in general, then at the decisive point.... There is no higher and simpler law of strategy than that of keeping one's forces concentrated.... In short the first principle is: act with the utmost concentration. On War, Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831

quienes son capaces de prever por adelantado y planear con paciencia para lograr que sus planes den sus frutos tienen un poder cercano al de los dioses.

No days unalert." Nothing should catch you by surprise because you are constantly imagining problems before they arise. Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan's happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that might emerge in it. The further you see, the more steps ahead you plan, the more powerful you become.

Most men are ruled by the heart, not the head. Their plans are vague, and when they meet obstacles they improvise. But improvisation will only bring you as far as the next crisis, and is never a substitute for thinking several steps ahead and planning to the end.

Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter in the world. - J. V. Stalin

But there is as much skill in knowing how to handle a meeting of ten as there is in manipulating a gathering of hundreds.

If teachers systematically attend to classroom strategies and behaviors (Domain 1), planning and preparing (Domain 2), reflecting on teaching (Domain 3), and collegiality and professionalism (Domain 4), they will surely enhance their professional status.

short, the preconference is intended to set the stage for what will be the focus of the comprehensive observation.

Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.

If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.

Why didn't you guess this would happen? Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. Light, Elayne said. You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything.

Prudence is for those who intend to live long lives

Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

There were more important uses for that time. One thing at a time, and the most important first. That was his way.

It is all right to plan for the worst possibilities, but you must not bask in them. You must not fixate on them.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

Everything always changes. The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow.

A plan revealed is a plan doomed to fail.