Planning Quotes

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

~ Liya Kebede

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

~ Jim Henson

If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.

~ Eric Maskin

I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. I never design things. I want films to choose me; I don't choose films.

~ Pawan Kalyan

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

~ Ian Goldin

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

~ Scott Walker

The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States, coordination by plot leaders based in Hamburg, and money transfers from Dubai - activities overseen by al-Qaeda's senior command from secure bases in Afghanistan.

~ Peter Bergen

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

~ Tennessee Williams

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

~ Alexander Hamilton

There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.

~ Jack Dangermond

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

~ Niecy Nash

I had all kinds of fantasies, like a lot of girls, but did I actually go through the motions of planning a wedding and buying bridal magazines and imagining things and setting up who would play what role? No. Because as I grew up, I started to believe that I would be one of those gals that never got married.

~ Sara Ramirez

A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women can turn into these other people. They're planning something that's the biggest event they'll ever plan in their lives and it turns them into this other person, so it's not totally the guy's fault that he's feeling disconnected from this person.

~ Alison Brie

When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

~ Lara Stone

Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.

~ Wendi Mclendon-Covey

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

~ Marc Warren

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

~ Alan Lakein

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

~ Heath Ledger

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

~ Larry David

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