Quotes About Planning

Those who rush up a peak without a plan often end up in the valley below - as food for vultures.

Being a teacher taught me how to be organized, to have a game plan in English, History, Math. The same discipline carried over into coaching. If you are an efficient and effective coach, you start off every day with a plan. You don't just walk in there and roll out the ball. You've organized what you are going to do. You break down your offenses, your defenses, your individual skills.

Only later did we discover that our planned drop zone had been strongly covered by the enemy with rifle pits and automatic weapons all around its perimeter. Had the drop taken place as planned, it was quite possible "that the greater breadth of the target would have given the waiting Germans a greatly enhanced opportunity for killing." Planned or not, Easy Company was scattered across a wide dispersal area several miles west of our objective. How the remainder of the

The real difficulty is not the lack of time; it is what we do with the time that we have.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.

Norman's Law: The day the product team is announced, it is behind schedule and over its budget.

A friend of mine'll follow him home tonight", Tiny said, "to get me the address. He's on the four to twelve. Around one, I'll put on a ski mask and go to that guy's house and put his head in his holster." "A ski mask," Dortmunder echoed. He was thinking how much good a ski mask would do to disguise this monster. In order to be effectively disguised, Tiny would have to put on, at a minimum, a three-room apartment.

a whole lot of ideas isn't a plan. A plan is a bunch of details that mesh with one another, so you go from this step to this step like crossing a stream on a lot of little boulders sticking out, and never fall in. Ideas without a plan is usually just enough boulders to get you into the deep part of the stream, and no way to get back.

Government is good at generating ideas. In

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

Certainly. My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.

The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life - that way you've always got a couple of days in hand.

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.