Top 100 Time Planning Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done ... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.
Lil' Wayne
#3. I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day
John Wooden
#4. I gave it up. The man annoyed me. I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie, but I was dashed if I could see why he couldn't do it with a bright and cheerful smile.
P.G. Wodehouse
#5. Impatience is best handled by allowing an indefinite time for the job, particularly new jobs that require unfamiliar techniques; by doubling the allotted time when circumstances force time planning;
Robert M. Pirsig
#6. Truth be told, many couples spend more time planning the wedding and the honeymoon than they do preparing for the marriage.
Carlos Wallace
#7. Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#8. If the hare makes too many missteps and has to keep adjusting, the tortoise wins. If the tortoise spends too much time planning each step, the hare wins.
Paul Kalanithi
#9. 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
#10. It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.
Ken Follett
#11. Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.
Michael Hyatt
#12. I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.
John Sununu
#13. Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often, some things will work, others won't, refine and move forward and above all forget the money, just make sure you love what you're doing.
Kevin Rose
#14. LEADERS Initiate Lead; pick up phone and make contact Spend time planning anticipate problems Invest time with people Fill the calendar by priorities FOLLOWERS React Listen; wait for phone to ring Spend time living day-to-day; react to problems Spend time with people Fill the calendar by requests
John C. Maxwell
#15. Many couples spend a great deal of time planning their wedding, but little time planning their marriage.
DeBorrah K. Ogans
#16. ... dwelling and planning is bullshit," he says. "You dwell on the past, you can't move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you say stagnant in the same place all your life." His eyes lock on mine. "Live in the moment.
J.A. Redmerski
#17. My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself
John Wooden
#18. Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
Zig Ziglar
#19. The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
Thomas Carlyle
#20. Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
#21. A good plan allows for plenty of spontaneity and room for change - but without a plan at all, it's difficult to work toward something significant over time.
Chris Guillebeau
#22. I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.
Mark Spitz
#23. The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
Aaron Patzer
#24. Most people think that when it's time to buy a car, they should immediately go to the dealerships to find what they want. In reality, there's a lot of planning that should be done first.
Donna Kane
#25. When we understand that He is Lord of our time, we realize that interruptions are of His planning. They become opportunities to serve rather than plagues to keep us from functioning.
Karen Burton Mains
#26. If we always think the other guy is the reason for our lack of success, then it's time to start planning ways to lift ourselves up, rather than planning ways to take him down.
Charles F. Glassman
#28. What could be a better use of your time than establishing a game plan for your life?
Michael Hyatt
#29. If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
W. Clement Stone
#30. There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.
Shaquille O'Neal
#31. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.
Suzy Kassem
#32. If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.
May J. Panayi
#33. Fulfilling your vision for the best year of your life requires thought and introspection. It is not much different than planning an awesome vacation. It takes time, discussion, planning, decision making, and an array of other skills.
Debbie Ford
#34. Are you planning on coming out and kissing me any time soon? Or should I just stab myself in the chest, rip out my heart, and leave it out in the open?
Jay McLean
#35. The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.
Frank Bettger
#36. What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.
Steve Goodier
#37. He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.
Joseph J. Ellis
#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. Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?
Hal Borland
#40. Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
Stephen Covey
#41. We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.
Ellen Tauscher
#42. Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.
Fred Seibert
#43. In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion.
Gunnar Myrdal
#44. The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!
Jim Rohn
#45. 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.
#46. Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.
Jim Rohn
#47. You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.
Taylor Swift
#48. Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
Djuna Barnes
#49. The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.
James Marcus Bach
#50. Did Ellis hurt like I did my first time? I hoped not. I tried desperately to prep him as best I could, but there was still no guarantee that today he wouldn't feel the repercussions, despite my careful planning. To his advantage, and to the detriment of my ego, I was on the low side of average.
Wade Kelly
#51. Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.
Billy Graham
#52. Knowing what to do with time is the first step to take when you lose your job
Sunday Adelaja
#53. I'm a reporter," Rachel said. "I write about the arts, festivals, new projects in the city. What I'm not is some kind of psychic astral traveler! How did I get here? Planning a trip to another dimension?
G.G. Collins
#54. It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start.
Auliq Ice
#55. If you're not consistently carrying out your plan ninety percent of the time, you really don't have a plan at all.
Alwyn Cosgrove
#56. There is a wealth of time and money the size of an aircraft carrier for planning wars, but the amount of time and money for helping soldiers when they get home is more akin to the size of a guillotine.
Thor Benson
#57. When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.
Alexa Von Tobel
#58. I don't live by other people's time tables; I live by Gods.
Shannon L. Alder
#59. The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
Bobby Seale
#60. The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie
#61. Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops ... eventually it all catches you at the same time.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#62. Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by ... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.
Thelonious Monk
#63. The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.
Robert Peary
#64. Changes and new interests, characterize the time periods a head of us unknowingly.
Auliq Ice
#65. 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
#66. You get further if you let your mind run free and do whatever you fancy at that particular time. I don't agree with planning far ahead and saying, 'this week I'm doing this, that week I'm doing that.'
Judi Shekoni
#67. Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.
Stephen King
#68. Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.
T. Harv Eker
#69. They taught me in the Army to make plans based upon the other guy's capabilities, and not based upon his stated intentions. And an employer is capable of firing you at any time.
Stephen Morrill
#70. Come on, let's go meet the guy who thinks he's my better half . And dear God, I apologize ahead of time if he starts talking to you about how many eight-point bucks he's planning to hunt this weekend.
J. Lynn
#71. I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.
Emeril Lagasse
#72. As a customer's man, his best brokerage work was securing the old age of his clients: time for them to do what they wished.
Edward Hoagland
#73. There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.
Jane Jacobs
#74. No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.
Jane Jacobs
#75. I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.
Margaret D. Klein
#76. I'm not planning on getting married any time soon," I told her, and she said that she wished she could say the same for dying.
Anonymous
#77. Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have to spray your fucking brains against the wall, too? Thanks!
Max Allan Collins
#78. As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must be constant and discreet.
Honesty matters so much less.
Philippa Gregory
#79. Plans were for adventurers. He preferred the goblin approach. Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.
Jim C. Hines
#80. A woman who's given me a home-a purpose.And for the first time in my life,I-"
"A purpose?" Jennika squints, as she cocks her head and steps closer. "And just what exactly might that be? You planning to take over her garden? Apprentice as an herbal healer? I had much higher hopes for you, Daire.
Alyson Noel
#81. I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.
Frank Miller
#82. The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.
Shannon L. Alder
#83. You can't manage time. You can only manage your life. You can't strategically plan time, you can only plan your life.
Farshad Asl
#84. Look, I'm not going to have sex with him just so he'll say that he loves me, you know?
... That isn't why I was planning to have sex with Rob - to hear the words, I mean. I just wanted to get it over with. I think. Actually, I'm not sure why it seemed so important.
Lauren Oliver
#85. I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?
Eoin Colfer
#86. Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn't time to execute the plans well enough.
Graham Speechley
#87. Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be
doing all the time.
Mary Stewart
#88. Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning. Others, like Churchill, quickly chafe at missing interaction and opportunity.
William Manchester
#89. Jack said nothing. It was time to start putting his plan into action. Then he remembered: He didn't have one.
Jasper Fforde
#90. It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world.
C. JoyBell C.
#91. Get used to planning ahead of time some if not all of your meals in the initial weeks of following my eating plan. This will help you have the right foods on hand when you get hungry. Hunger and tempting foods make for bad decisions!
Bob Harper
#92. To get kids involved in meal planning and preparation, create games out of trying new foods, and provide ample opportunities for physical activity, recognizing it may take some time to find an activity they truly enjoy.
Michelle Obama
#93. I am liking him enough to know that a different time and a different place might have led to a different outcome. But since I'm not planning on leaving this time or place anytime soon, it's not a point worth making.
David Levithan
#94. Each day, wake up with a plan. Don't just approach your days in an unfocused void. That state of mind leaves too much room for discontent, opposition, unhappiness and hopelessness.
Carlos Wallace
#95. Seize the moments that are before you instead of planning for future moments that get lost in the abyss of time.
Orly Wahba
#96. Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.
Elizabeth George
#97. Begin things today so that they can finish tomorrow
Moonish Sood
#98. And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.
Cassandra Clare
#99. Are we almost done with the gushing and the weeping?" said Thorne, massaging his temple. "When do we start planning a revolution again?" This time, it was Iko that kicked him.
Marissa Meyer
#100. Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.
Fred Brooks
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