Quotes About Planning

Writing is a two-party democracy. To the left are those who write stories from their heart, or according to the other side of the aisle, from the seat of their pants. On the right are those who write stories from a meticulously constructed outline.

If you're planning on dying today I hope you dig your grave first.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.

So . . . with several key suspects on the line, she had a lot to think about. But first, there was a tea party that needed hosting.

Beauty won't protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can't plan for. The one thing you can't save for or search for or even find. It has to find you and decide to stay. Time. More of it. More of it to try and make things right.

Rome wasn't built in a day

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You don't build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself. Recognizing that is what makes success possible.

If you wait until the end of the month to save what you have left, there will be nothing left over. Likewise, if you wait until the end of the day to do meaningful but not urgent things like exercise, pray, read, ponder how to advance your career or grow your organization, or truly give your family your best, it probably won't happen, If it has to happen, then it has to happen first.

You don't build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself.

go back through your "List of 100 Dreams" and choose elements of a few to incorporate into your days. Make two lists: one of activities that take half an hour or less, and another of activities that take less than 10 minutes. Then, figure out ways you can make these two sets of activities as easy as lighting up a cigarette or turning on the TV any time a bit of leisure shows up on your schedule.

If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.

We're making a list. And checking it twice. Edward shook his head.

on birth control tells you something

If Amy had been around for the creation of the world, Jane had no doubt that she would have chivvied the Lord into creating the earth in two days rather than seven.

I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I'll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I'll think about a career path.

I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out.

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.