A Month of Quotations on Planning

1 All time management begins with planning. - Tom Greening   2 Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock. - William Emerson   3 But the noble man makes noble plans, and by noble deeds he stands. - Isaiah 32.8 Bible   4 Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen. - Sheila Ballantyne   5 Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. - Alexis de Tocqueville   6 He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. - Victor Hugo   7 Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.  - Charles Richards   8 I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray. - Conrad Hilton   9 If anything is certain, it is that change is certain.  The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow. - Philip Crosby   10 Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. - D. H. Lawrence   11 Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution. - Crawford Greenwald   12 He's a real Nowhere Man,/ Sitting in his Nowhere Land,/ Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. - John Lennon   13 First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. - Napoleon Hill   14 For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. - James Rouse   15 For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. - Lois McMaster Bujold   16 God has plans which mortals don't understand. He rests in the womb when the new baby forms. Whispers the life dream to infinitesimal cells. It is God who lies under the thoughts of man. He is cartilage. Memory. - Ellease Southerland   17 Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension. - Edmund Hillary   18 Good plans shape good decisions.  That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. - Lester R. Bittel   19 He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. - Victor Hugo   20 He's a real Nowhere Man,/ Sitting in his Nowhere Land,/ Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. - John Lennon   21 Strategic planning is worthless --  unless there is first a strategic vision. - John Naisbitt   22 I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view. - Ginni Rometty   23 I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey. - Gene Tunney   24 Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans. - Margaret Millar   25 I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray. - Conrad Hilton   26 If anything is certain, it is that change is certain.  The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow. - Philip Crosby   27 If God is your partner, make your plans large. - Unknown   28 If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious. - A. B. Zu Tavern   29 In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest. - Titus Livy   30 In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower   31 Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill