Planning Quotes

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.” "Were you planning to attack me?” "No. But that’s a good idea.

I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person.

From Day 1 I wasnt planning to run until I am very old.

Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

Weakness and corruption isn't in the world," Clary snapped. "It's in people. And it always will be. The world just needs good people to balance it out. And you're planning to kill them all.

I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

I have a question. Do you guys think it's OK to drink while you're pregnant if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?

In the battle between planning and action, action wins.

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

Oprah Winfrey just announced that she's planning to attend Barack Obama's inauguration. Oprah says she's very excited to see Obama become the second-most powerful person in the world.

The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore.

I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.

Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance.

Planning is my favorite - to have a vision and watch it materialize.

We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

Planning trip around the globe, that is in my room.

Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo

I’m planning to stay in politics now, but, you know, George Burns worked until he was 100. I don’t know. I don’t want to be a Senator until I’m honored.

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10.

I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing

The structure is there, and will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

When I hear Hillary Clinton talking about what she is planning to do, why hasn't she done it for the last 30 years?

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

How did that go?’ he asked. ‘Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age?’ ‘Fabulous,’ said Artemis, voice dripping with sarcasm. ‘We’re planning a June wedding.

I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.