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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Planning

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.
A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Always be planning something.
Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.
At all times it is better to have a method.
Before beginning, plan carefully.
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.
Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough
If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.
In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.
In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
It takes time to save time.
It's never too late to start planning for the future.
It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
Long-range planning works best in the short term
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.
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage
Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
No one was ever lost on a straight road.
One step at a time is good walking.
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are
Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.
Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.