Planning Quotes

I arise in the morning, torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world.
That makes it hard to plan the day.

Having a plan B only distracts you from Plan A.

It's a plan. Or at least a straw to grasp at.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

It doesn't do to plan too far ahead. Inviting Trouble to tea when she has a mind for coffee, as it were.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier

The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley.

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

When things go perfectly, sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s because your plan was perfect or because your plan didn’t matter.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledgehammer on the construction site.

You won't get anything done by planning.