Best 659 quotes in «planning quotes» category

Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better be surprised every day, or it's going to be stale.

Everything takes meticulous planning and nothing works out the way it's supposed to.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

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

Forethought spares afterthought.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Good planning is the foundation of success for almost any project. Start by getting clear on your goal.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.

God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

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

Government planning always involves compulsion.

Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

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.

Great strategy, not executed, can't possibly have any effect on performance because it doesn't actually affect anything. It's like planning for a successful surgery to remove a tumor. If no one picks up the knife and actually operates effectively, the diseases will persist.

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

hindsight is not a strategy.

I am planning the release of 2NE1's new album for after CL finishes her solo activities. 2NE1 will surely show you good work until the expiration of their contracts.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

I always say 'Don't make plans, make options'.

I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.

I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

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.

I don't know, unless you disagree with me, wouldn't it be better, if we were going to go after Mosul, to not say anything and do it as opposed to announcing? They're announcing all over television they're planning to attack Mosul.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

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 feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again.

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

I finished high school, so now I'm planning to take a few classes in college when I'm not working.

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.

I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

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.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.

I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. [silence] This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good.

I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?