Quotes About Action Planning

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

Junot Diaz

#2. Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

Peter Drucker

#3. The aim of strategic planning is action now.

Peter F. Drucker

#4. With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Max McKeown

#5. Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see you through a start of your journey to success.

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. In the battle between planning and action, action wins.

Chris Guillebeau

#7. The person who says it can't be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. One step actually taken achieves more than a lifetime of planning.

Marty Rubin

#9. A strategy is multi-dimensional planning, multi-team collaboration, and multitasking action.

Pearl Zhu

#10. Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.

Graham Greene

#12. Jack said nothing. It was time to start putting his plan into action. Then he remembered: He didn't have one.

Jasper Fforde

#13. It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.

Auliq Ice

#14. A miracle is when you take action on your goals, and create the visible from the invisible. Transform your thoughts and dreams into the material world, from planning, hard work and determination.

Mark LaMoure

#15. Between a plan and it's achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. Lift the demands of time pressure, though, and some of the true power of human cognition becomes evident. Given the opportunity, we often behave in a decidedly off-line way: stepping back, observing, assessing, planning, and only then taking action. It

Anonymous

#17. It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

Jack Canfield

#18. I learned to be wary that summer of a pious approach to life that saw good intentions and righteous prayer as substitutes for planning and pragmatic action.

Krista Tippett

#19. Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.

Tim Fargo

#20. If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.

Idowu Koyenikan

#22. Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Brian Tracy

#23. I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.

Steven Spielberg

#24. If you don't know exactly where you're going, how will you know when you get there?

Steve Maraboli

#25. We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

Marvin Minsky

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

Andy Gilbert

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

David J. Schwartz

#28. If you're to fulfill your vision for a better life, you must formulate a plan of action. Effective planning involves identifying and prioritizing those actions that will move you most efficiently toward your goal.

Stedman Graham

#29. The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

Napoleon Hill

#30. When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.

Steve Maraboli

#31. A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

Nathaniel Branden

#32. Like many old people she slept lightly and had periods of wakefulness which she used for the planning of some action or actions to be carried out on the next or following days.

Agatha Christie

#33. Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#34. I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.

Tim Ferriss

#35. the plan isn't working because we aren't working the plan

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#36. Whether it is a call to action for blood drives, disaster relief, or just community outreach, the American Red Cross does an extraordinary job at not only meeting the immediate needs of a community, but also the preparation and planning for long-term support,

Darius Rucker

#37. Thinking is free, planning is also free, but action taking is not free; you have a price to pay. Success is not luck; it demands work ... hard work of course!

Israelmore Ayivor

#38. Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.

James Caan

#39. I don't want to part in any ill-humor. But can't you understand? I've grown used to seeing you, to having you with me all the time, and your action seems unfriendly, even unkind. You don't even offer an excuse for it. Why, I was planning to be together.

Kate Chopin

#40. Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.

Bobby Darnell

#41. Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#42. Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#43. Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.

T.F. Hodge

#44. The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Donald Curtis