Planning Quotes - Page 5

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

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

The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

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

You must plan to be spontaneous.

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

I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.

Every battle is won before it is fought.

The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Why do I need succession planning? Im very alert, Im very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

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.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

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 have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

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