Quotes About Planning

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.

Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.

I'm not someone who likes having a master plan for everything, but I do believe in a vision for your life.

Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and other life events that took up every spare moment of their time in case unpleasant thoughts intruded. But for Nina, whenever reality, or the grimmer side of reality, threatened to invade, she always turned to a book.

the girl with the maps and the travel books and the plans.

Then I wondered if it would look weird if I wrapped up a few hot dogs to take with me for later.

And then people's moms and dads were picking them up, and it was so anticlimactic after all that planning and anticipation. It was disappointing for me, not because I liked anyone, but because I liked romance and drama and I was hoping something exciting would happen to someone.

Survival instructors have a saying: get organized or die.