Best 659 quotes in «planning quotes» category

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

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

Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.

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

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

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

No more Dane,” he eventually said with unnerving finality. I tried to be funny. “I can't decide if that means you don't want me to see him again or if you're planning to kill him.” “It means if the first thing happens, the second thing is likely to follow.

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself

Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.

Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

Now there are reports that Osama bin Laden would like to commit suicide on television. This is the kind of lead-in I have been praying for every since I came to CBS. Bin Laden is planning a televised suicide or, as I call it, hosting the Academy Awards.

Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is

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

Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.

Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

Plan your own vacations when you want to, and plan a suitable combined vacation with this other family when you want to. If they freak out at your planning your own vacations as you see fit, then let them. Bowing to unreasonable demands because someone will make you pay emotionally if you don't is not a healthy option.

Plan your work and work your plan.

Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

Planning is not my friend. Impulse is.

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

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

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

Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something.

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.