Planning Quotes

• Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

  

  Crawford Greenewalt
  • Motivational
  • Minutes
  • Execution

• One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Planning
  • Meals
  • Indulgent

• I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Planning
  • Frustrated
  • Secretary of state

• We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

  

  William Easterly
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Revolution

• No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

  

  Ranulph Fiennes
  • Firsts
  • Planning
  • Expeditions

• But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there's going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

  

  Jon Postel
  • People
  • Home
  • Planning

• Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses against existing competition, teams need to be developed to foster internal change and disruption. Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Competition
  • Planning

• I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

  

  Neil Oliver
  • Trust
  • Happen
  • Plan

• You are constantly surprising me. I have to remind myself that whatever it is you are planning, it is going to be thought through more thoroughly than anything I have ever contemplated.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Remind

• To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Program
  • Abortion
  • Rhetoric

• Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

  

  Martin Filler
  • American
  • Planning

• Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

  

  David J. Schwartz
  • Action
  • Dreams
  • Waste

• I love getting the pontoon boat out, and I don't get to do it as much anymore. If I know in two weeks or a month from now I've got three days off, I can start planning for that stuff, getting out there with friends and family and relaxing, just floating around and hanging out.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Boat

• THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Technology
  • Lies
  • Planning

• I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

  

  James Nicoll
  • Book
  • Wonder
  • Planning

• Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Career
  • Planning

• I've been on lots of movies where we've done a lot of planning of sets - how much you build, and is this big enough, and will this get us what we need? - just with foam-core models.

  

  John Knoll
  • Done
  • Planning

• Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.

  

  Dana Gould
  • Effects
  • Attack
  • Take Away

• There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Bad
  • Planning

• I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left

  

  Alden W. Clausen
  • Time
  • Planning
  • Spend

• The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Working

• Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Nice
  • Wine
  • Girlfriend

• I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

  

  Moshe Safdie
  • Design
  • Cutting
  • Urban

• So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Character

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