Planning Quotes - Page 14

Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

We are better able to bring the same sort of pragmatic planning and analytical pre-work to our values scripts that we would bring to any other business position that we espouse. This approach enables us to be more reasonable, more respectful, less impulsive and more constructive. Risk cannot be eliminated entirely but that is true in all of life.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

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

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.

I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail.

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.

I'm pretty much always planning two albums ahead.

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.

The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.

Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.

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.

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

About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

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.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

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

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

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.

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.