Planning Quotes

We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

Plan your work and work your plan.

Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you.

Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.

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

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

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.

Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.

The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

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.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

Planning anything is hopeless.

Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?

I was planning on this being something worth mentioning, energy invested in someone I saw potential in

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

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

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

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

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

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

Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

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.