Best 659 quotes in «planning quotes» category

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Be candid with everyone.

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.

Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

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

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

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

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

CBS is planning a tribute to Dan Rather... the memo went out a month ago but everyone assumed it was a fake.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

Disappointment requires adequate planning.

Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.

Don't get locked up into the ultimate goal. Just concentrate on the next step.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew Brzezinski observed, it would provide the US with "critical leverage" of its European and Asian rivals, a conception with roots in early post-war planning. These are substantial reasons for aggression - not unlike those of the British when they invaded and occupied Iraq over 80 years earlier, at the dawn of the oil age.

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

Don't plan with what is in your pocket; plan with what is in God's pocket

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

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.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

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

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

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Government planning always involves compulsion.

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

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.

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

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

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

hindsight is not a strategy.

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.

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.

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

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

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 to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.