Quotes about planning

Ruth Cole was a novelist novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing.

Never have a plan it'll just get in your way.

It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen Since something is going to happen either way.

I don’t live by other people’s time tables I live by Gods.

The 6 months leading to an ultra marathon are crucial in how you will do Vision and mission planning are as important in whatever.

You have the choice to either pray then plan or pray and wait but keep in mind miracles are usually accessed somewhere between the 11th hour and resurrection.

Thinking and planning is one side of life doing is another. A man cannot bedoing all the time.

Don’t depend on the thoughts “I need more time”. There are only 24 hours in each day. You can’t make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit.

She had reason to doubt him he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

The intelligent have plans the wise have principles.

Falling in love was the easy part planning a wedding - yikes!

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

I had all kinds of fantasies, like a lot of girls, but did I actually go through the motions of planning a wedding and buying bridal magazines and imagining things and setting up who would play what role? No. Because as I grew up, I started to believe that I would be one of those gals that never got married.

A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women can turn into these other people. They're planning something that's the biggest event they'll ever plan in their lives and it turns them into this other person, so it's not totally the guy's fault that he's feeling disconnected from this person.

When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art it emerges.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

Time changes therefore think about the changing times. You shall always have time to think about the time for your plans and you shall always plan your lifetime. Plans can change the meaning of time and time can change the real meaning and essence of plans. Time is mutable so plan your time and time your plans for time changes

True success and satisfaction in stock investments comes from owning both your failures and your successes.

Speculators always present opportunities for genuine investors to -- pick under-priced stocks, and- exit over-priced

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted in a matriarchy.Most city architectural designers and planners are men. Curiously, they design and plan to exclude men as part of normal, daytime life wherever people live. In planning residential life, they aim at filling the presumed daily needs of impossibly vacuous housewives and preschool tots. They plan, in short, strictly for matriarchal so

You need to play to your strengths as a couple. Sharing is really awesome when you're messing around with Play-Doh in kindergarten. It's less awesome when you're adults and one of you is good at something and the other person sucks at it. So just let the more skilled person take the reins.

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits.

Sammy, wouldn’t you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?”“Naw. I just figure to roll on, stackin’ days, you know, till the day I fuck up big enough the future gets canceled. Or else all planned out for me, maybe. There’s a somewhat likely chance of that.”“Man, Sammy, I can’t live thinking that way""Well,I don't think about it.

Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

Time is life.Take time to plan your life.

The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.

Learning to open the taps of your imagination leads to abundance & success unlimited.

Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined.

Make every day count, because you're never promised a next day.

The future is not about a single mind that sees or predicts - it is about the many.

If tomorrow is promised to no one, why do we spend today building the foundation for tomorrow. The future may not be promised, but it may be filled with promise.

Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting.

Keep your maximum focus on the present and a little planning ahead because without the present there is no future

Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

The thinking that says, 'I will start building my ideal future tomorrow, or next week, or next month,' is fatally flawed. The future you are going to live is the one you are creating right now at this very moment.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future. Never mind that you have no control over it. The idea of the future is our greatest entertainment, amusement, and time-killer.

If you plan to wake up tomorrow, plan for it.

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distri

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Success = Dream x Plan x WorkConscious dreams are essential components of your success. When you are backed up by a convincing dream, meticulous planning, and 100% execution, you are bound to be victorius.

The quality of your ideas 'your actual thoughts' determines your success more than you think.

Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened... Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be... We are apparently on the trail here of some sort of invisible or hidden hand that beneficially hides difficulties from us.

If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

Education is not life planning, it is life.

Why spend a thought worrying when you can invest the same thought planning a prosperous future?

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

Concentrate on the here and now. The future can take care of itself.

You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it

I can't predict the future but I'm pretty much sure of how I want it to be, how so? Because I have a dream and zero reasons not to achieve it.

When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...

Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.

But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.

Commitment is the foundation of focus.

It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.

The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared.

My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and set up my expectations accordingly. An important part of spiritual practice is to learn to let go, to recognize that Plan A exists only in my head.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.

You have everything within you to do great things in this world. Maybe, you are inspired to sing a song, write a book or poems, create art in various forms. Or you may decide to find a cure for disease, end world hunger, prevent abuse, or take a stand politically. The question is how to begin the process of fulfilling your vision. Start where you are and use the resources you have to build from there. Inspiration is what motivates you to achieve your remarkable ideas. Also it takes time and dedi

Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

The dream of a planned, fair, moral, ethical, cash-free society remains strong, particularly among socialists and liberals. It clearly represents a fundamental human instinct. But feudalism just did not work very well, if only because powerful people will not always obey moral imperatives.

It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.

The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what’s there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it!

The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what’s there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it. Our destiny resides in our imaginations!

Will, is the precursor of possibility, and the foresight of potential.

The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.

We're all destined for greater things in life. How you execute your plans to achieve that greatness lies solely in your hands.

Don't let the excess of demand make you loose your command and get you further from what you've planned.

Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.

But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them—if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down the line—well, you’re deluding yourself. For one thing, it’s easier to plan derivative work—things that copy or repeat something already out there. So if your primary goal is to have a fully worked out, set-in-stone plan, you are only upping your chances of being unoriginal.

As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering with others, sizing people up, flirting, talking, pushing, shoving and horseplay. Adolescents are always being criticized for this kind of loitering, but they can hardly grow up without it. The trouble comes when it is done not within society, but as a form of outlaw life.The requisite for any of these varieties of incidental play is not p

Teachers should not fear going off plan if a better learning opportunity presents itself. Plans are plans, but children are living, breathing, creative people, who deserve to have their questions answered and original ideas explored.

As many ideas you can generate, encourage them to form nests in your mind, for one will surely liberate you.

Several things ran through my head as I watched this silent ballet: First, I was running low on pears, my favorite morning fruit. Second, I, as a woman, am much smarter than men, I having displayed foresight this male apparently lacked in regards to trash day. And finally, I desperately needed to see more of this man in his boxers.

I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ...Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your c

Planning is a skill and an art which takes a lifetime to master

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

A person without a plan is a person with soggy dreams.