Quotes About Not Planning For The Future

#1. We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

Ben Carson

#2. Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.

Shona Brown

#3. Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future, and lack of imagination.

John C. Maxwell

#4. A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy fo a role you're planning to leave.You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret, you want future critics to say you played the character better.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. What is important for me is playing cricket and not thinking about how my Test career is shaping up. I am not into future planning and all. I am concerned about my present and not the future.

Suresh Raina

#6. Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

Peter Drucker

#7. Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. Life is short. Everyone's forever planning for the future. No one lives in the moment anymore.

Dick Houston

#9. I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Larry David

#10. Changes and new interests, characterize the time periods a head of us unknowingly.

Auliq Ice

#11. Despite the well-deserved criticism, controlling public opinion became a central element in all future war planning.

Oliver Stone

#12. Tomorrow is not just a day that can't be seen, it is a day that can only be seen by the decisions we make today.

Auliq Ice

#13. There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

John Leguizamo

#14. Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear.

Lisa Murkowski

#15. The window of opportunity to plan and prepare for the end of his life had closed gradually. Any cracks left open to talk candidly were tenuous and fleeting.

Lisa J. Shultz

#16. Concentrate on the here and now. The future can take care of itself.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#17. If you plan to wake up tomorrow, plan for it.

Saji Ijiyemi

#18. 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

#19. Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#20. All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

#21. I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

Heath Ledger

#22. To keep an eye on emerging services and to think creatively about how you might be able utilize them to benefit you is great for your future, give it a try and start your journey now.

Auliq Ice

#23. Life is what is happening today while you were planning tomorrow

John Lennon

#24. Technology is permeating every single thing we do ... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

Marc Morial

#25. If tomorrow is promised to no one, why do we spend today building the foundation for tomorrow. The future may not be promised, but it may be filled with promise.

Nikki DiCaro

#26. As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#27. In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.

Alex Lifeson

#28. Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.

Auliq Ice

#29. 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

#30. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.

Carlos Wallace

#31. Everyone in America (according to my generalizations) is a potential millionaire waiting for his or her big break. I was astonished lately to realize that Americans are definitely believing in and planning for the future, despite the fact that they elected Ronald Reagan twice.

Roseanne Barr

#32. You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it

Saji Ijiyemi

#33. The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we've created to get there.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#34. Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Lakein

#35. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...

Max McKeown

#36. While many different animal species have nervous systems that enable anticipation of events - for example, learning that a flashing light is associated with a reward in a conditioned learning experiment - planning for the future seems to be a prefrontal invention.

Daniel J. Siegel

#37. The duty of planning tomorrow's work is today's duty; though its material is borrowed from the future, the duty, like all duties, is in the Present.

C.S. Lewis

#38. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.

Vikrmn

#39. Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

William H. Hastie

#40. The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.

Anthony Foxx

#41. That's the problem with all of us. We've never time to think about the past, and we're always planning for the future. And since the future's always the future, we never live in the present.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#42. Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.

Ron Lewis

#43. Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!

Leslie W.P. Garland

#44. It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.

Dale Earnhardt

#45. We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#46. What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#47. The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of, as if you'd signed up for a credit card without knowing it.

Jean Thompson

#48. What is the conceptual tie that binds anxiety and planning? Both, of course, are intimately connected to thinking about the future.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#49. Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

Terry Pratchett

#50. Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch; Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions. If you have got to think about something - Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death .

Sogyal Rinpoche