Quotes About Planning

Proverbs 16:9—"In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps"—

don't waste your precious life only dreaming, but not mental mapping

you've got to be investing today in what your future's going to be 5 or 10 years out.

Steve did a prepayment on royalties to make sure we had the resources to stay in business

The first business plan is there to make sure you can use Microsoft Word.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

Why would you sacrifice today's freedom for a future that will always remain uncertain, no matter how carefully you plan for it?

To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future, he wrote. In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future," he wrote. "In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

From the start, Churchill and Fisher resolved to keep the operation so secret that only they and a few other Admiralty officials would ever know it existed.

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir ine's blood.

In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

Suzanne had totally forgotten about their court date since she'd been a little busy having tons of condom-free sex with Ryder, planning Nikki's wedding, and forming a placenta.

Sounds like a plan. I owe Tammy a big thank-you." Ty sighed. "I think I'm too old for this bachelor party crap." "We'll be planning yours soon enough." That was so not appealing, Ty was almost scared. "Let's just go fishing and call it good." "Done.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Tomorrow can be a day of much valid action. Tomorrow can be a day of concrete acts. Tomorrow can be a day which is worth something. That tomorrow should come and that I should be there.

Night plans aren't any good in the morning. The way you think at night is no good in the morning.

No plan survives contact with the enemy

Imagination—that's the key word here. With your affairs, the arousal starts on your flight over there. You don't need the blue pill because what turns you on is the plot, the planning, the carefully chosen clothes. All the anticipation is what fuels the desire. When you come home and the first thing you do is take off your nice clothes and put on old sweatpants, nobody's going to get turned

Imagination—that's the key word here. With your affairs, the arousal starts on your flight over there. You don't need the blue pill because what turns you on is the plot, the planning, the carefully chosen clothes. All the anticipation is what fuels the desire. When you come home and the first thing you do is take off your nice clothes and put on old sweatpants, nobody's going to get turned on.

Being smart is not enough to get away with a crime . . . you have to spend time getting good at it.

While Diana and her mother started planning guest lists, wardrobe requirements and the other details for the wedding of the year, the media vainly attempted to discover her hiding-place. The one man who did know was the Prince of Wales.

At Intel, we put ourselves through an annual strategic long-range planning effort in which we examine our future five years off. But what is really being influenced here? It is the next year—and only the next year.

The key idea is that we construct our production flow by starting with the longest (or most difficult, or most sensitive, or most expensive) step and work our way back.