Top 100 Quotes About Planning
#1. They appear in the doorway, holding tea and toast, their faces filled with concern. I open my mouth, planning to start off with some kind of joke, and burst into tears. So much for being strong.
Suzanne Collins
#2. Don't order boeuf bourguignon if you're a vegetarian, don't venture into the tearooms if you don't like ladies with lapdogs. Don't come to Paris if you're planning a solitary hike through a sexual desert.
Francine Prose
#3. This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
John T. Flynn
#4. Government planning always involves compulsion.
Henry Hazlitt
#5. After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.
Timothy Simons
#6. Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Jodi Taylor
#7. I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
Tony Benn
#8. CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that's just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a bank along the way . . . that's a conspiracy.
Lois Lowry
#9. Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you ... you are part of a much larger whole.
Denis Hayes
#10. It's when you stop planning every last detail that you discover the fun in life.
Joanne Clancy
#11. I let go of the pump as well now. I registered a sense of fatigue. And regret. It was the same fatigue and regret you feel when you miss a tennis ball. You were planning to smash it, but you swing hard and miss; the arm holding the racket meets no resistance and lashes wildly through the air.
Herman Koch
#12. 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
#13. Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.
Ciaran Hinds
#14. I realize you're planning on fighting all the dragons single-handedly-"
"I'm going to protect you from John, dammit. Show him that he can't fucking mess with you. This is about territory."
Tom narrowed his eyes. "Are you going to piss a circle around me too?"
"If that's what it takes.
S.E. Jakes
#15. I rode toward Rudolfo Maldonado's house, planning to murder him before he got his morning shave.
Nancy E. Turner
#16. Where one does not do planning, it is all pure 'discharge'. 'Charge' occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it.
Dada Bhagwan
#17. Are you planning on shooting me for wearing your t-shirt?" I cocked my hip, daring him. I couldn't tear my eyes away. This was a very bad idea - I shouldn't have come. I was in deep trouble with the way my body totally disregarded me, snarling for his touch
Jade Hart
#18. If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.
Sean Covey
#19. Success = Dream x Plan x Work
Conscious dreams are essential components of your success. When you are backed up by a convincing dream, meticulous planning, and 100% execution, you are bound to be victorius.
Vishwas Chavan
#20. The secret to successfully staying within your budget and enjoying delicious one serving meals at the same time is through planning. Set aside an hour each week and dedicate it to planning your breakfast, lunch and dinner meals.
Claire Daniels
#21. Leo," Amelia asked suspiciously, "what are you planning to do to her?" "Why do you always insist on asking questions when you know you won't like the answers?" "Because, being an optimist," she said tartly, "I always hope I'm wrong."
- Amelia & Leo
Lisa Kleypas
#22. The goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing" ... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.
Lawrence Kushner
#23. -Waiting Time is time of preparation, planning pruning before time of manifestation (time of showing forth)
Ikechukwu Joseph
#24. Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.
Patricia Briggs
#25. The backbone of success is ... hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.
Mia Hamm
#26. (Terrorists) are planning to disrupt our democratic process. It's scary I know, but we're not going to let al Qaeda tell us what to do. In fact, our government has decided that if al Qaeda attempts to disrupt our democratic process, we are going to respond by disrupting it first.
Jon Stewart
#27. I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#28. I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.
Norah Jones
#29. The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.
Thomas J. Stanley
#30. The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.
John Green
#31. I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.
Jonathan Lethem
#32. ENFPs thrive on the excitement of not knowing what comes next. This wildly imaginative type gains energy through speculating about the future and planning what could and might come next. Consequently,
Heidi Priebe
#33. Planning on staying?"
"Just till you wise up."
"I'm flattered you think that's a possibility."
"Yeah, well it's lucky I've rolled a lot of vacation.
Josh Lanyon
#34. I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10 ...
Diana DeGarmo
#35. I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.
Charles Stross
#36. In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.
Richard Attias
#37. I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.
Heath Ledger
#38. 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.
Gloria Steinem
#39. I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder
Mingmei Yip
#40. One major but by no means final protocol that is very useful for ministry planning is to deploy a ministry readiness worksheet (see Figure 6.1) for each educational activity of the church or Christian organization.
James Estep Jr.
#41. When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
Atom Egoyan
#42. Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war, he said.
-Baron Arald
John Flanagan
#43. It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
Lewis Thomas
#44. Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
George Reisman
#45. People who achieve their goals do so with passion, planning, persistence and purpose.
Lynda Field
#46. The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.
Peter Block
#47. The state of convenience lies in the hands of proper planning. When you know this, you will become a good planner; and when you become a good planner, you save your life from stress!
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.
Colleen Haskell
#49. Who've you set up for me tonight?"
"Set up," Myra repeated, wrinkling her nose. "What an unromantic phrase."
"Sorry.How about-who are you planning to loose Cupid's arrow on?"
"It's still unromantic when you're smirking.
Nora Roberts
#50. All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it ...
Katherine Anne Porter
#51. Planning to be a seducer was difficult enough. Talking about it with the seducee would be impossible.
Lori Foster
#52. To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.
Thomas Moore
#53. The most effective time to resolve to obey Christ is in advance of difficulty. Planning to stay faithful can greatly enhance victory.
Beth Moore
#54. Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance.
Dana Goldstein
#55. Third world nations are producing too many children too fast ... it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth ...
Al Gore
#56. ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes - for radicalisation, for operational planning, too.
George Osborne
#57. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin. Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
Terry Pratchett
#58. I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out."
"So what happened?"
"I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all,
Sarah Dessen
#59. The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
Jerry Brown
#60. There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
Aaron McGruder
#61. If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today
Mike Dirnt
#62. What differentiates the crimes of the Nazis from the others is their methodical organization, their administrative planning, and their relentless execution.
Jacques Delarue
#63. I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.
Anne Geddes
#64. I'm a relaxed person, and I kind of just wear anything; I don't put that much time and care into planning an outfit.
Lucy Fry
#65. I hope you're not planning on kicking me," he said,
not even bothering to look up from his book, "as hard
as you did those doors."
"I will," I said, "if the next words out of your mouth
are Pierce, you just need to relax.
Meg Cabot
#66. All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
Imtiaz Ali
#67. Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look."
"I don't have an I'm-planning-something look."
"Yeah, you totally do. Your eyebrows knit together and your lips press together and - "
"Do you have a pen?" she asked him.
Rick Riordan
#68. Fine. Be mad. Take it out on me. I'm planning to take out my emotions on you.
Laurelin Paige
#69. As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button.
Nancy Farmer
#70. Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#71. You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
Gore Vidal
#72. I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour.
Ruben Blades
#73. Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.
Hilari Bell
#74. If and when family planning is the responsibility of females, males are best kept under lock and key.
Nell Zink
#75. Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
Ted Allen
#76. The duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty...
C.S. Lewis
#77. I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.
Nigel Farage
#78. Miss much?" she whispered. "Nobody's planning to kill us, so far," I whispered back. "First time today.
Rick Riordan
#79. I type everything on my computer. I carry a writer's notebook everywhere, in case I am struck by an idea. I forget things unless I write them down. I'm planning to learn how to dictate into my cellphone; I think that will be very helpful, too.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#80. I don't know about you, but I am planning to scream and run.
Benjamin
#81. 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
#82. We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning
Carl Menger
#83. Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.
Bruce Lee
#84. The word 'try' is for losers. When you say 'I will try', it means that you are planning never to do it in your lifetime.
Ankit Uttam
#85. Leaving the house in general really doesn't mix with toddlers, but long lines just indicate poor parental planning and judgment.
Jim Gaffigan
#86. If I'm not on a cruise, I'm either thinking about my last one or planning my next!
Beth
#87. I'll always say my prayers ... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.
Johanna Spyri
#88. It is well to remember that the stomach governs the world, wrote Churchill when planning the feeding of his troops on the north-west Indian frontier at the tail-end of the nineteenth century.
Cita Stelzer
#90. Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.
Thomas J. Stanley
#91. We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
Kendrick Lamar
#92. Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.
Richie Norton
#93. Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.
Robin Sieger
#94. I thought Nell would go to bed then, but she followed me to the back of the house, where I was planning to make a cup of tea and think of where I could take them to find a decent tribe.
Lily King
#95. I was planning on this being something worth mentioning, energy invested in someone I saw potential in
Drake
#96. If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.
Thomas Sowell
#97. I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could.
Marc Maron
#98. Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he could gain power, until he finally came up with the great solution of constant fear and guilt, then he leaped up and started planning a new wardrobe.
Steve Blake
#99. Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.
Brian Tracy
#100. Stand-up is my heart and now I get a chance to do that and the music altogether. That's going to be great. I'm trying to be the Sammy Davis Jr. of 2005. I'm planning on going out with Cedric the Entertainer because he's got that musical bone, too.
Jamie Foxx
